If you’ve ever wanted to write scripts to talk to your database, perhaps to perform a routine maintenance operation, or to build a more full-fledged application, you may have considered Perl.  It’s a flexible language, with a huge collection of prebuilt modules, and components to choose from.

In this May article over at databasejournal.com, we give you an insiders introduction to the goodness that is Perl + Oracle:  Programming, Perl + Oracle.

Oracle Indexing – What, Where, When?

This piece was published in April over at databasejournal.com.  In it we discuss some of the myriad different index types available to you in Oracle, and try to sift through to the most important ones.