Interested in programing for Oracle on Linux? Then this is a great starting point. This tutorial starts out with the prerequisites and slowly works its way up to the code itself. Not for the faint of heart by any means, however if you think that you have what it takes then this makes for a great read.

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“By far, the most common RDBMS platforms for Linux-based systems are MySQL and PostgreSQL, due to their inclusion in most major Linux distributions. Quite a few shops still run legacy databases, however, using commercial database servers such as Sybase or Oracle. Even Linux Journal gave its 2001 Editors’ Choice Award for Best Database to Oracle. As such, it is not uncommon for a programmer to be asked to put together an application to interact with these legacy databases.”