This talk is a brief overview of the current state of the art when it comes to retrieving your data from a RDBMS using Perl. It will mainly focus on the Perl module DBIx::Class, but this isn't really an introductory talk. What we are going to try to do is to push the boundaries of what people normally try to do with a RDBMS. Even if you are proficient with SQL and/or the abstraction framework that comes with your language of choice, you may be pleasantly surprised and maybe even inspired by some of the possibilities that will be demonstrated.