How to manage DB and Cell servers remotely on Exadata with ExaCLI utility -...
Whoever is working with Exadata or knew how to administrate Exadata major components like DB and Cell nodes, will certainly knows the use of CellCLI, dcli and DBMCLI utilities. This blog post is...
View Article2018 - ODTUG's Year in Review
As 2018 comes to a close, we're reflecting on the great year that ODTUG had.
View ArticleNew Year, New You
Well maybe not so much a new you. More like getting your personal “play” environments refreshed.If you are anything like me, you want the latest and greatest in the setup where you play with great...
View ArticleCompile PL/SQL with Visual Studio Code (Compilar PlSql VS Code)
En esta oportunidad veremos la forma de como compilar archivos Pl/Sql Oracle usando el editor de Visual Studio Code.Hace unos días revisaba que Visual Code viene teniendo una gran acogida por los...
View ArticleBasic SQL: All about sequences
IntroThere are still a lot of misunderstandings about Oracle sequences. Sometimes even experts tell you things about sequences that are easy to misunderstand, especially if we look into the details....
View ArticleThursday Thought: Imposter!
Ever feel like you're struggling to keep up? With anything at all?I'm feeling a bit of that with APEX right now.Partially because I've been at a site that is a version or so behind, but who isn't,...
View ArticleAn Interview With Joel R. Kallman
As an Apex developer you won't go very far without hearing the name Joel R. Kallman. Joel is the Oracle's Director of Software Development for Application Express. He is a long time contributor and...
View ArticleMaximize region and JET Charts
When using JET Charts in APEX regions, I often enable the “Show Maximize Button” in the live template options of the regions. This allows users to view the region in a “full screen” display mode....
View ArticleODTUG Bids Farewell to Mike Riley
Thank you, Mike, for your commitment to the ODTUG Board of Directors and the ODTUG Kscope Conference Committee these past 12 years. You will be missed!
View ArticlePrevisualizar imágenes antes de subir Oracle Apex / Preview an image before...
En este post veremos cómo pre visualizar una imagen antes de guardarla en la base de datos usando el file browse.Para esto la forma más sencilla que encontré es usando JavaScript y el archivo temporal...
View ArticleThanks Patrick! You lit up tthe Apex Page Designer for me
As some of you might know, but I suspect not many, I am visually impaired. In some jurisdictions I would be considered legally blind by legislation. I have been visually impaired all of my life. I have...
View ArticleAdopting the Cloud – Where to Start?
Since its appearance in 2006, Cloud computing has been one of the most talked about subjects in IT. Just about everyone is now aware that adopting the Cloud can offer advantages such as cost savings...
View ArticleAPEX 18.x Application Session Sharing
For quite some time I've been crafting multiple applications that, to the end user, appear as one.This is possible with some Session Sharing attributes in relevant the Authentication Scheme, a feature...
View ArticleSocial Sign-in Authentication Scheme
Recently I was involved in setting up a Social Sign-in Authentication Scheme, so despite the doom & gloom of this post, we are breaking some interesting rock.I say 'involved', since I had the...
View ArticleAuthentication - Switch in Session
It's only taken a year, but I've finally checked out the ability to switch authentication schemes at runtime with 18.x. It's mentioned in this 18.1 new features slide deck, and the new features list in...
View ArticleRest Enabling the Interactive Grid - Part 2
by Andreea Dobre, Oracle Romania in BucharestIn the first Web Source Modules and the Interactive Grid blog post, Interactive Grid was built on top of a Web Source Module by using customized PL/SQL code...
View ArticleAUSOUG 2018 webinar series - NEW location
AUSOUG 2018 webinar series New location on a new AUSOUG website Still available publicly As some of you may know AUSOUG website is going through a restructure. Due to this access to some of webinar...
View ArticleUpgrading of Oracle APEX 18.x and future
Late September 2018 Oracle Application Express (APEX) 18.2 was released.Since 2018, Oracle adopts a new versioning for their software, and APEX is following that. The plan of the Oracle APEX...
View ArticleCustomising APEX Session Expiry
It's nearly 8am, you're holding your favourite morning beverage, and you open yesterdays APEX tab, only to find this:This is the current default expiry page. I'd like to tart it up.I've used the...
View ArticleAutomated Cloud Scale Performance Monitoring capabilities with Exadata...
Starting with v12.2, Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) multiple components work together 24x7 autonomously to keep the database system healthy and reduces human intervention & reaction time...
View ArticleAutomated Cell Maintenance
One of the key actives for a DBA is to well maintain the database servers and Oracle environments. In a complex Oracle environment, managing and maintaining file system space plays a very crucial role....
View ArticleAPEX Office Print (AOP) 19.1: Printing and Exporting made easy in Oracle APEX
To start the new year in an awesome way, we released APEX Office Print (AOP) 19.1 on January 11th. I typically don't blog about every new AOP release, but this is an important release in our history of...
View ArticleAbstract Selection Process for APEX Connect 2019
I noticed that there is almost nothing published on the internet about how an abstract selection process works. Being the program manager for DOAG APEX Connect, I would like to share some insights...
View ArticleTrying to decide which APEX events to attend? Here's where I'll be.
I love going to conferences, to catch up with friends, be part of the vibrant Oracle APEX community, gain and share knowledge and of course demo APEX Office Print (AOP).Conferences are a great way to...
View ArticleAPEX Office Print (#AOP) 19.1 esta disponible!
La nueva versión de APEX Office Print (#AOP) 19.1 esta disponible! aqui te dejo el blog de Dimitri https://dgielis.blogspot.com/2019/01/apex-office-print-aop-191-printing-and.html Yo lo estoy usando en...
View ArticleAnnouncing the ODTUG Kscope19 Special Event!
Join us on Wednesday, June 26 for the annual ODTUG Kscope19 Special Event at MoPOP, Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture.MoPOP is a nonprofit museum dedicated to contemporary popular culture. The MoPOP...
View ArticleThe best free database... Google is wrong!
When you search on Google for "the best free database", the below is what you get (search done 11-NOV-2018 and again on 12-JAN-2019 and 28-JAN-2019). To my surprise, there's no Oracle on the list? The...
View ArticleExtending E-Business Suite to meet Your Needs
Oracle E-Business Suite is the Enterprise Resource Planning system of choice for thousands of businesses. A well-rounded Oracle product, it performs just about every business function a medium to large...
View ArticleODTUG January News
Announcing ODTUG's 2019-2020 Board of Directors Officers Congratulations to the newly elected officers of the ODTUG Board of Directors! Natalie Delemar, president Tim German, vice president...
View ArticleOracle USER vs sys_context
This post was inspired by the fact I couldn't find many good references for what I thought was 'previously discovered truth'. So what does any good science-nut do? Add their own contribution.So here...
View ArticleModal Dialogs Part 1 - Intro
In this 5 part series of blog posts I will share my understanding of how you can open modal dialogs with dynamic values.First of all: Why would you need that?There are particular business cases where...
View ArticleAPEX Plugin: Execute PL/SQL code and return content to page (updated)
Oracle APEX has a built-in Dynamic Action called "Execute PL/SQL Code" that executes a block of PL/SQL code on the server via an Ajax call (ie does not do a regular submit and reload of the whole...
View Article2018 Was Good – Looking Forward To Serve You in 2019!
While starting off this new year (It’s still January, isn’t it?), I wanted to take the opportunity to offer you, our readers, my best wishes for 2019. Thanks for your interest in our work, your...
View ArticleOracle APEX Social Sign-On with Microsoft Azure
My co-worker Adrian Png has written a few great posts on social sign-on with APEX. I'd like to provide a quick cookbook with some interesting details here. If you get a chance, take a look at Adrian's...
View ArticleIcon Picker
Demo app https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=94650 GitPage https://github.com/grlicaa/IconPicker
View ArticleMy APEX Application Got Hacked : Change Passwords Into Passphrases
While I will discuss APEX specifically later in this article, the content here really applies to any web based application.Most of us as developers fall into a false sense of security when we establish...
View ArticleORA-600 [ossnet_assign_msgid_1] on Exadata
On a Exadata system with Oracle v12.1, a MERGE statement with parallelism was frequently failing with below ORA errors: ORA-12805: parallel query server died unexpectedly...
View ArticleOracle APEX 19.1 Early Adopter Now Available!
The Early Adopter program for Oracle APEX 19.1 is now available, and it's open to everyone! The URL to access it is:https://apexea.oracle.comPrior to every major release of Oracle APEX, we conduct a...
View ArticleOracle APEX 19.1 Early Adopter ya está disponible!
¿Qué hay de nuevo en Application Express 19.1?¡Esta versión ofrece una serie de nuevas características que incluyen formularios habilitados para REST, un asistente de carga de datos completamente nuevo...
View ArticleQuick and Easy Data Loading with APEX 19.1
A new, improved Data Loading facility is one of the new features in Application Express 19.1. This new feature is not only a dramatic improvement of the existing CSV Data Upload utility - it also...
View ArticleOracle APEX Less Social Sign-On with MS Azure and Office 365
After my last blog post a natural question came up: what if I'm a little anti-social?Specifically, what if I do NOT want to make my APEX application available to everyone on the planet that has (or is...
View ArticleOracle APEX and Google reCAPTCHA v3
Google reCAPTCHA v3 How to integrate reCAPTCHA v3 into APEX?Oracle APEX and reCAPTCHA v3 integrationSome of you may know that APEX plugin for reCAPTCHA v2 has been available for a while which you can...
View ArticleRegion only shown in development mode in Oracle APEX
In the last months, I had to look up several times in different projects how to show a region only when I was logged in into the App Builder in Oracle Application Express (APEX). So I thought to write...
View ArticleForms in APEX 19.1: More power, more Flexibility
The latestAPEX Early Adopter Release 19.1 introduces a lot of new functionality for forms. First, there is REST Service and REST Enabled SQL support for forms, as outlined in the Statement Of...
View ArticleAPEX – A Well-Integrated, Web-Based Oracle Tool for EBS Development
In my previous blog, the first of four in this series, I explained how Oracle APEX, Oracle’s Rapid Application Development (RAD) platform allows you to improve the E-Business Suite (EBS) business...
View ArticleOracle APEX Consolidated Help
I recently had the need to show "most" of the application help on a single page in my APEX application. In order to make the procedure generic and easy to use, I didn't want to create any additional...
View ArticleAPEX 18.2 and IG Detail view issue
APEX 18.2 and IG Detail view How to display url based images in your IG cards? Interactive grid Detail view issueWhile it is still fresh I want to write down very interesting feature we encountered...
View ArticleNow Accepting Applications for the ODTUG Women in Technology Scholarship
As part of our continuing effort to offer learning opportunities in all areas relevant to our membership, ODTUG is pleased to announce the fifth annual Women in Technology Scholarship Program.
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