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Exporting an APEX page plus Shared Components
Imagine, if you will, a really large application. Perhaps it's a reporting application, and you've just created a new page (report) and an associated breadcrumb. Now for migration. You have a choice...
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Friday Fun SQL Lesson - union all
Our office kitchen is unavailable this Friday, so the call was put out for pub lunch.After a couple of replies I decided to enter my reply, in full nerd mode.select * from...
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On Controlling Use of Minified Code in APEX
Today I encounted an issue during regression testing for 5.1. An older application that doesn't use the Universal Theme, and hasn't really been touched since 4.x, complained about the SkillBuilders...
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ORDS web services returning BLOBs
When it comes to deliving blobs from the database, I'm sure many of us have used, or came across a procedure that look like the one described here.This sample includes some commentary on how the...
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ORDS Cross Origin Complaint
A few years ago while upgrading to APEX 5.0, we had a few issues when upgrading ORDS.My loose understanding is that from about ORDS 3.0.3, it started enforcing some security policy regarding...
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OracleJET JavaScript Customisation in APEX
I've finally got some regular hands on a 5.1 instance, and the shiniest tool in the box for me is OracleJET.Some months ago I spent a few days learning about OracleJET and the knockout framework with...
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Modify OracleJET Property at Runtime in APEX
OracleJET has attributes galore, but some are are (not yet) available to change at design time, so JavaScript code can be added to the chart attributes to set relevant attributes.function(options)...
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Data driven APEX icons
We have an application written with a heavily customised Theme 25 built for 10" tablets, and we feel the Universal Theme justifies the move, in part because of the surrounding ecosystem. Check out this...
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APEX Programmatic Spectrum
I listened to a session by Joel Kallman, and found myself thinking hard about this slide on the programmatic spectrum, diving into the concept of “low code” vs “high control”.(From around 14 minute...
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Oracle APEX Self Improvement
There was a slide I considered in my Exploring AJAX presentation that was a little tangential, but I left it in as a little extra positivity for APEX.I think this concept was explored in some facet...
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Emulating touch devices for Oracle APEX
In my Exploring AJAX presentation I had a frame that mentioned the ability for the Chrome browser to emulate the behaviour of a mobile device.Open up the browser tools, I use F12. I spend a fair it of...
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On Switching Code Editors
Ever since I joined the industry, my preferred text editor was TextPad.It's a solid tool, similar to Notepad++. I probably underutilise it, but I started to see some people to interesting things with...
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Logger Snippets for VS Code
Snippets are a common feature in text editors, allowing you to essentially paste in a snippet of code from some library somewhere.Snippets appear for selection as you start typing, and the editor will...
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Filtering outliers from Oracle APEX activity logs
Last year I described a simple test case that described how to remove outliers from a fictional dataset using the STDDEV() analytical function...
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Transposing data using UNPIVOT
A couple of years ago I posted a method to remove nulls from a report using the Value Attribute Paris - Column template.Here's an example of how we might utilise the region, within the breadcrumb...
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Things I learned while not at Kscope18
Yep, as much as I wanted to be at Kscope18 this year, my abstracts were not accepted.And it's a long way.And I'm still waiting for this.So this is a small collection of stuff I learnt only from Twitter...
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Oracle XE 18c and #OracleRAD
This post is one of a series on what I learned while not at Kscope18.Oracle XE (Express Edition) 18c - which is more than just a free, limited db.Combined with the notion of #OracleRAD, you've got a...
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ANSI dates make life easier
This post is one of a series on what I learned while not at Kscope18.Dimitri mentioned that he learned about the ANSI date format that allows you to return a date with the expression.Learned something...
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This post is one of a series on what I learned while not at Kscope18.The faces of Oracle APEX. Very blessed and honored to work with a world-class team at @Oracle, cc...
View ArticleCommunity Recognition at Kscope18
This post is one of a series on what I learned while not at Kscope18.Some well deserved people have been recognised by the Oracle ACE program. One in particular I noticed was Daniel, creator of many...
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