[mura_gadi (Steve)]

Did you want to learn a code for a reason?

If its just to dabble, Basic and SQL are very powerful common interfaces that are fairly forgiving and reasonably transferable.

Basic will allow you to run batch files, simple coding etc and sql is great for extracting data.

If your in it for fun, may I suggest "R" thats awesome for looking at and extracting all sorts of things from datasets.