PL/SQL, Oracle's powerful procedural language, has been the cornerstone of Oracle application development for nearly 15 years. Although primarily a tool for developers, PL/SQL has also become an essential tool for database administration, as DBAs take increasing responsibility for site performance and as the lines between...

Data Scientists at Work is a collection of interviews with sixteen of the world's most influential and innovative data scientists from across the spectrum of this hot new profession. "Data scientist is the sexiest job in the 21st century," according to the Harvard Business Review. By 2018, the United States will...

AS LARRY WALL, creator of Perl, puts it, "Perl makes easy jobs easy and hard jobs possible." This is a large part of what makes Perl such a great language—most jobs really are easy in Perl. But that still leaves the hard ones—database access, GUI development, Web clients, and so on. While...

Now that so many of us are online and web tools are becoming user-friendly, we’re experiencing a profound change in the way we form relationships and build communities. After years of hype, the Internet is truly transforming the way we find everything from jobs, dates, clients, and support groups, to political allies, social causes,...

Becoming a CCSP distinguishes you as part of an exclusive group of experts, ready to take on today's most challenging security tasks. Administration of the Cisco PIX Firewall is a difficult and complex task, critical for protecting a network. Whether you are seeking a PIX-focused certification or the full-fledged CCSP...