Thanks everyone who responded here. As you no doubt have observed I am a rather excitable person who can make mountains out of molehills very easily. I am realizing now that this is probably at least some of a good thing, as I've been sitting here twiddling my thumbs (and making some rather longwinded posts) for the last three months. Anything new can't hurt, especially when it's getting experience with something like Oracle. Also, I've seen that PL/SQL is probably the right tool to do certain things. I'm still not totally happy with moving to database work, but it can only help me become a more well rounded programmer, and after all, I have been looking for a next step.