Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) is a server-side scripting environment that you can use to create and run dynamic, interactive Web server applications. As with Perl and PHP, ASP has database conectivity components for most databases.

A world standard for high performance reporting, Crystal Reports is an intuitive reporting toolkit that helps you rapidly create flexible, feature-rich reports and tightly integrate them into web and windows applications.

Database connectivity via ODBC or native libraries using third party applications and languages.

Native java stored procedures are now supported in Oracle, DB2 and Sybase. Far more flexible than SQL for many tasks, it is quickly becoming the language of choice for DBA's and developers.

Perl has long been the language of choice for many experienced database administrators. The DBI is an abstraction layer that allows Perl to connect to virtually any database given the correct module.

Although not strictly a DML or batch language is one of the most widely used data access software for web implementations. PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language with native support for many of the popular databases.

The Standard Query Language for virtually all relational database systems currently in use. Although most vendors slightly enhance their versions to take advantage of features specific to their own software.

The database administrator's other best friend! Shell scripts can be used for many of the mundane tasks involving databases including backup automation and batch job control.

Database connectivity via ODBC or native libraries using third party applications and languages.