Live, Rapid Dev Guided by Kscope12 Attendees

All Things Oracle on 17 May 2012 with 0 comments

Attendees to this year’s ODTUG Kscope conference will have the opportunity to get involved in a live software development experience on the Red Gate exhibition stand (stand no. 424 – 425). Attendees will provide input to go from zero to first prototype in 3 days through a series of rapid development sessions live on the stand. Monday’s feedback is Tuesday’s… Continue Reading →

Introduction to Oracle Flashback Technology (Part 1: Application Developers)

David Njoku on 16 May 2012 with 0 comments

Imagine, if you will, that someone invented time travel. What would you do with it? Nip back into the past and fix that error you made? And maybe you’d want to do something about that silly, ill-advised haircut you had when you were 17. Well, the good news is that, in a manner of speaking, time travel has been invented…. Continue Reading →

Free eBook: Expert Oracle Database Architecture

All Things Oracle on 23 April 2012 with 0 comments

Download your FREE eBook Expert Oracle Database Architecture (Apress Media) provides a one-stop resource containing deep wisdom on the design, development and administration of Oracle applications, written by one of the world’s foremost Oracle experts, Thomas Kyte. This fully revised second edition covers the developments up to Oracle Database 11g. Each feature is taught in a proof-by-example manner, not only… Continue Reading →

Building Apex Plugins 101

Martin Giffy DSouza on 28 March 2012 with 0 comments

Martin Giffy D’Souza has created some of the most popular plug-ins available on the APEX plug-in community page. He has learned a lot about the architecture and what it takes to make a robust plug-in. In this video, Martin will help get you started with creating your first APEX plug-in. He will also provide you with some tips and useful… Continue Reading →

APEX Plugin Competition

Peter Raganitsch on 28 March 2012 with 0 comments

The first ODTUG APEX Plugin Competition was launched on Tuesday March 27th 2012). This is a chance for everybody to submit their self created Plugins to get reviewed, judged and maybe win one of the many Prizes available. Plugins will be judged upon skill level of its creator. That means beginners and experts will not be in the same category,… Continue Reading →

How APEX Processes Various Conditions and Validations

Martin Giffy DSouza on 26 March 2012 with 0 comments

I was recently teaching an Intro to APEX course and the students had some questions about what to put in the Expression 1 text area for different conditions and validations based on the Type selected. If you’re new to APEX the various options can be confusing. To help clear things up I have covered various APEX conditions and validations along with code that demonstrates… Continue Reading →

E-Business Suite and APEX

Dimitri Gielis on 15 February 2012 with 0 comments

There is a series of posts on my blog where I focussed on getting information out of E-Business Suite and use it in my APEX application. This is especially useful for people using APEX. Here is a complete overview of those posts: Calling EBS Webservices from APEX Using EBS Open Interface from APEX Debugging EBS API calls in APEX Updating EBS data… Continue Reading →

Wouldn’t you like to talk to your APEX app?

Roel Hartman on 17 January 2012 with 0 comments

You may be familiar with Martin Giffy D’Souza’s blog talkapex.com (if you’re not, check it out – it’s really worthwhile). But wouldn’t it be nice to not only talk about APEX, but also to APEX? The only thing you need is a recent version of Chrome (11 or up) and a microphone. And then…just by entering “x-webkit-speech” to the HTML… Continue Reading →

Using a database link with heterogeneous services in APEX

Gert Poel on 05 January 2012 with 0 comments

Last weeks I ran into some issues with APEX, so let’s take some time to write something about them. The most recent is about heterogeneous services (also referenced as HS). Here is the case: We have an Oracle DB instance with some APEX applications and in one of those applications I need data from a MS SQL server database. Not… Continue Reading →

APEX: Friendlier Exception Message from AJAX Call

Alex Nuijten on 04 January 2012 with 0 comments

While it is very easy to create a “Form and a Report” on a single table or view (just follow the wizard), it is not always intuitive for end users that they should navigate to the form page to remove the record. A nicer solution is the one described by Anthony Rayner in this demo page. This solution uses a… Continue Reading →