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Get SQL Developer 4 going in 4 steps
After a little hiccup on my part, I've started using SQL Developer 4 Early Adopter 1 on two computers I work on. It's pretty easy:Download SQL Developer 4 and it’s required JDK...
View ArticlePost eastern Insync 2013
It's been over a month since my last confession - mainly due to a lot of interstate travel.The reason for most of the travel was the AUSOUG Insync Conference Series - on the eastern coast anyway. So in...
View ArticleHelp APEX find it's way
In case you missed it, there was an OTN forum post about asking about the APEX5 release date. As Hilary mentions, it's Oracle's privilege to release it whenever they like.That being said, there is an...
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SQL 101 - Group by ROLLUP
One of the reasons I called renamed this blog grassroots-oracle was to occasionally illustrate some simple examples of functionality not everyone is aware of - or are maybe too scared to give it a go...
View ArticleAPEX information from Montreal
If, like me, you are nowhere near APEXposed in Montreal, but you are interested in what might be coming in APEX5, then you must read this post from Scott Spendolini (USA...
View ArticleThe trick with triggers
Creating triggers, prior to 11g, would default them to an enabled state.From 11g, we have this in the documentation:By default, a trigger is created in enabled state. To create a trigger in disabled...
View ArticlePerth 2013 Insync conference program now available
While many in the Oracle universe are enjoying OOW, here in Perth we are preparing for our leg of the Insync Conference Series.This year it's on 12-13 November at Pan Pacific Perth Hotel - a healthy...
View ArticleRegular Expressions 101 - REGEXP_COUNT
Not all regular expressions are scary.As the documentation states, REGEXP_COUNT returns the number of times a pattern occurs in a string.We can do this to simply count how many times the letter S...
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Using LDAP to authenticate your APEX users
It can be fairly simple to configure your APEX application to authenticate against your Active Directory server - this means your users can use the same username/password as the use to log onto their...
View ArticleFormatting 101 - Nested single row functions
Sometimes to get the data displayed exactly how you want it, you need to employ some nested functions.with t as ( select null n from dual union all select 0 from dual union all select 0.5 from dual...
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Advert: SAGE APEX 4.2 course
SAGE ComputingAttention Perth residents - and perhaps those interstate...SAGE Computing are holding a 4 day Oracle Application 4.2 course from the 28th October, 2013.Please contact me or Penny if...
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Friday Fun : Tim Minchin
I like Tim Minchin.One year I took my wife to see him with West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO) at Kings Park in Perth - now she likes Tim Minchin.It's a shame he didn't perform his 10 minute beat...
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APEX 101 - Dynamic actions
Dynamic actions are awesome.Let's so you have a scenario where after you change the value of one item, you would like to validate it or perhaps calculate the value of a separate item - or both!Given an...
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Customise Totals row in APEX classic report
This post covers one way of customising the declarative sum totals on classic APEX reports.Classic Report sum totalsThe default output isn't that flash looking, and no doubt many would prefer at least...
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APEX 101 - Set region title on page load
I saw a forum post recently asking how to dynamically change the region title.This is a little ambiguous - is this dynamic to the value set in APEX meta-data, or dynamic as a result of user events on...
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Happy Friday - something from Isaac Asimov
"which I repeat here for everyone that find's this page"Well Morgan, I found the page.The backstory - I've been tidying my bookmarks, and I read through ACE Director Daniel Morgan's thoughts for...
View ArticleWhy I think GlassFish isn't dead
At this week's Perth Insync conference I attended a great session comparing Oracle Glassfish Server (OGS) with Web Logic Server (WLS), only to find out that Oracle will discontinue future commercial...
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Perth Insync13 Conference Review
From my employer's perspective we had a very successful year at the Perth Insync13 conference. Sage had 7 papers from 4 of our team, and as usual our exhibition booth was very popular.We were pushing...
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Spice up your APEX application with third party plug-ins
At this year's Australian Oracle User Group Insync13 conference series I conducted a half-day workshop in Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth called "Spice up your APEX application with third party...
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Use jQuery to dynamically modify Region title
In a recent post I showed how to determine the APEX region title on load of the page. This post will show how to change the region title dynamically - without submitting the page, and still in three...
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