Mladen, Thanks for the recommendations. And of course I'm aware of the Jared and Duncan book ;-) Your comments about DBI being a little old, is DBI still the way to interface with Oracle (and other databases)? Or has something else come into play? Yes, I will be googling for that answer as soon as I send this so don't send some stinking rtfm or "google it up" answer ;-) Sometimes it is useful to get the opinion of people you trust as opposed to reading just a lot of junk on the internet. Regards, Larry G. Elkins elkinsl@xxxxxxxxx 214.954.1781 > Alligator Descartes and > Tim Bunce of DBD::oracle > and DBI fame wrote the book about DBI which is a little bit old > but still very useful. Last > but, by no means the least, is the book by Jared Still, the owner > of this list and > Andy Duncan: Perl for Oracle DBA. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------