Originally posted by Tim:
Perl



Werd. I learned enough Perl in a week to do every homework in my grad level Advanced UNIX Programming class - that was my end of term project. It works with ANY language and I used it to code a web page in my Sys Admin class (where we were given a RH linux box to play with).

I never used its DB interface, but I imagine it's as easy as the rest of the language to use.