I'm an Oracle DBA, and I have been looking at Haskell with interest for a long while now. But I don't feel particularly that I could use it in my "day job", mainly because I can't seem to find a nice, simple way of doing (Oracle) database access in Haskell. What I'm after is very simple - I want to be able to connect to a database and issue SQL queries and DML (updates, inserts, etc). There's nothing particularly "functional" in this - it's more of a basic building block (like file I/O) as far as I'm concerned, so I'm happy for database access to sit in the IO monad. I've looked at the various database access libraries for Haskell, but they all seem to be missing a couple of key pieces if I want to use them: 1. Simple documentation of how to install the library (starting from a vanilla GHC installation on Windows, plus Oracle software, to the point where I can use the library in my code). All I need is Oracle access, so other database client libraries can be ignored. I'd rather not use ODBC, but will if required. 2. Simple examples on how to actually run a query. For example, how do I code the follwing SQL*Plus code (should be pretty self-explanatory) in Haskell: connect scott/tiger@mydb select * from emp; (Connect to the database "mydb" as user "scott", password "tiger", and issue the query "select * from emp"). Ideally, I'd like the Haskell code to not be *too* much more verbose than this (although I can accept that Haskell, beng a general language, won't be able to be quite as concise as a special tool can manage). Without this basis, I don't really have a way to evaluate the various libraries available... If anyone can offer any assistance, I'd be very grateful. Paul.