ODTUG Webinar: APEX 5 Page Designer
I'll be presenting an online webinar for ODTUG not long after the Perth conference.It will be the same session I did for AUSOUG back in July, which is lucky since it's 6am for us Perth locals. It's a...
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Perth 2014 Professional Learning Event
There's a little over a week left to this year's major Oracle user group event in Perth, so attention all locals (or even east coasters) - if you're interested in picking up new skills & ideas -...
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ODTUG from afar
I would like to extend my apologies to those people who persevered just now with our attempt to bring to you my presentation on APEX 5 Page Designer thanks to ODTUG.Due to the massive time zone...
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Chrome Device Mode and Mobile Emulation
Recently a colleague suggested I take a fresh look at the mobile emulation button in Chrome's developer tools.Apparently this was upgraded earlier in the year and it's a shame I didn't have this a year...
View ArticleBoosting APEX menu SQL performance
If you're using dynamic SQL to source your menus and you're utilising the apex_application_pages dictionary view to build you list of menu options - I suggest you consider using Materialized Views.We...
View ArticleOracle 12c WITH inline PL/SQL
I've been having a bit of a play with the Oracle 12c database over the past few days and I thought I'd mention a gotcha I encountered.Of course, oracle-base is a great place to start for clear &...
View ArticleSpeakers looking for New Year's Resolutions?
If you're a semi-regular speaker looking for a new year's resolution, how about learning this little ditty?I never opened the clip of Daniel Radcliffe doing the same song not long ago on Jimmy Fallen -...
View ArticleOracle 12c column upgrades
While playing with 12c I tried the upgrade to the DEFAULT column syntax that now allows sequences.I came across a basic error, but it's just a small trap for new players.CREATE TABLE seq_test(a...
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APEX5 Early Adopter 3 is nigh
I get this email that tells me apexea.oracle.com is about to be fitted out with an even slicker APEX5 Early Adopter 3.It's coming soon to a browser near youStay tuned...
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2014 Blog Review
Yup, it's February. Early adopter 3 for APEX5 has just become available, and I've just logged of an APEX 3.2 instance.I've had this sitting my drafts for some time (it has company), thought it best I...
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APEX Best Practices Survey
Hi All,I was inspired by Peter Raganitsch to use the Survey Builder packaged application to create a survey that will help with my "Evidence Based APEX" presentation.I would appreciate 5-10 minutes of...
View ArticleTwitter as a work tool
Scott Spendolini conducted a little experiment last week, then Jeff Smith & Kellyn Pot'Vin whipped up a little slideshow on the topic.I thought I'd chime in after some recent experiences were...
View Article2014 Annual SQL Championship
Steven Feuerstein runs a great site at PL/SQL Challenge that is just another way for developers to stay up to date with their knowledge of PL/SQL, SQL and database design with a bit of fun.PL/SQL...
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APEX Community Sample Applications
There are a bunch of sample APEX applications out there built by developers (typically with blogs) that are darn useful, but so far I haven't seen a useful central repository.So I've started one here...
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Introducing the Official LinkedIn APEX Group
Once upon a time I had a laugh on facebook when someone posted an image showing multiple groups dedicated to stopping duplicate groups, oh the irony.Recently I've been trying to share my blog posts via...
View ArticleLISTAGG to a CLOB, avoid 4000 chr limit
Thanks to twitter I found this post by Carsten Czarski on LISTAGG and CLOBS that helped my with the 4000 character limit with LISTAGG(), found when building JSON strings.ORA-01489: result of string...
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Adjusting Interactive Reports - learning from mistakes
Sometimes I come across code where it's obvious someone has taught themselves APEX, then worked through a problem to come up with a solution - but they went a long way.Today's situation required data...
View ArticlePerth Breakfast Meeting - APEX5 + JSON + Food
Do you live in Perth, Western Australia?Do you use Oracle Application Express?Are you interested in seeing how easy it is to extend the product?Keen to see APEX 5 in action?Please tell me you're free...
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All commenters now welcome
I've finally bitten the bullet and disabled the Google+ commenting mechanism from this blog. I promised this in my 2014 annual review, and I figure I might as well not wait.When Google announced they...
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apex.oracle.com upgrades to 5.0 this Friday
There was movement at the station, for the word had passed aroundThat the APEX version 5 will become available.I've jumped the gun before, but this message is taken direct from the apex.oracle.com...
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