Truncating LISTAGG prior to 12.2
I've been following the LISTAGG problem for a while because I find the function useful.The problem being this error:ORA-01489: result of string concatenation is too longIt relates to when the result...
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APEX Survey Results: Addressing Performance
Yep, I'm still doing this. A bunch of questions to come, many worth the visit. Just a few weeks between drinks, so to speak. My annual review is a little late, too. Anyway...Time for the performance...
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How did you get into programming in the first place?
If you want a sanity check on programming life, I recommend you follow @ThePracticalDev in some form.Recently a question was posed regarding we all got into programming in the first...
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2016 Blog Review
It's February, so it must be time to do this. I explore what thoughts arise from looking back, and forward to the future. It helps me to remember stuff, decide what to do, and apparently some people...
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Understanding the User's Perspective
Recently I encountered what I thought was an interesting allegory in regard to software development and understanding the user experience.My three year old approached me with her bottle of milk and...
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Font APEX between versions
Sometimes, it's the little things in an application that make users happy.Sometimes, it's just the icon on a darn button, card, or menu that makes all the difference.Surely by now you've encountered...
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Make Radio Group look like UT Buttons
It's pretty easy to convert links in APEX reports to use the Universal Theme button look & feel, as I described...
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Frequent APEX questions
I've put a call out on the OTN APEX forum asking for suggestions from the community on what they think are frequent APEX questions, be it within the forum or elsewhere.In part, I'm chasing ideas for...
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I'm still here.
It has been some time since my last confession.It's been a while, but sometimes you get busy, ya know?And a different sort of busy, the sort that left me wanting to escape to a different place. I spent...
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Presentation: Dynamic Actions, Javascript, & CSS for APEX Beginners
My first webinar didn't do so well, perhaps my new home will have suitable internet capability, in this "innovate nation" of ours...My second one on my Boggex game went ok, though the room the locals...
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Annual Oracle release cycle coming?
Those of you on Twitter at the end of May, and certainly those at DOAG might have seen this announcement.Oracle changes the whole release cycle of the @OracleDatabaseThere will be a yearly major...
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Removing Outliers using stddev()
A colleague asked me about removing outliers from reports and I knew just the function to give a go.Some time ago I had to prove that some data we had conformed to a normal distribution. Remember those...
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Science Friday: Collect rocks, plant flag
Every year that goes by firms my realisation that putting people on the moon was an absolutely stunning achievement.Almost 50 years ago a massive team of engineers helped put 3 highly skilled men in...
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Sans Kscope
A few years ago I was lucky enough to attend Kscope15, and while I wasn't there this year, I have bizarre feeling of involvement.The BuzzI knew it was coming because the Twitter engine told me. I could...
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APEX Login Background Image Cover
For a while I've wanted to play with cover photos on login pages, and when Keegan asked a similar question on Twitter, I was curious enough to ultimately have a play.Someone mentioned relevant a...
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In Memory Session State - Simple Example
Not too long ago I encountered an interesting behaviour with session state, turns out not long after Dick Dral posted a very similar article that I had not yet seen.Recently I encountered an even...
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Revising jQuery with Oracle APEX
A few years ago I managed to bust out a book that explored my experiences using jQuery within Oracle APEX to solve various problems, many originally explored when building some "backend" apps for use...
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Last night around midnight I laid in bed hoping that thousands of people on the other side of the world took the opportunity to experience the once in a life time experience that would be a total solar...
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Cassini. So long and thanks for all the pics
Recently I stumbled upon an amazing documentary called The Farthest about the Voyager spacecraft and their grand tour of the solar system. You know the hub-hub caused as New Horizons flung past Pluto...
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Wow, what a busy year. My blog archive is pretty thin this year, isn't it?I'm moving house next week, but I'm itching to get back into blogging about my tech journey.I need to get back into learning...
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