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Although I'd say probably not ideal for a complete Perl beginner (where "Learning Perl" would be a good place to start) any DBA with some knowledge of Perl could save hours on getting up to speed on all the Perl Tools and packages available and finding the one most useful for their needs. There really is a wealth of information here. I can't imagine there is anything on Perl and Oracle that is not in here.

The chapter on Oracle::OCI alone was exactly what I required beforehand - and I can now see dozens of other different ways to do the same project.