Gavin Bell

Gavin is a Development Consultant at DSP-Explorer. Having attained a BSc in Computing he embarked on a career working with Oracle technologies and specialising in SQL and PL/SQL programming. In previous roles he has worked with Oracle Forms and Reports (v9-12), Oracle Retail (v13) and APEX (v4.2-18.2). Here at DSP-Explorer, he is part of a highly skilled development team providing APEX development solutions and training to both UK and international businesses.

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Latest Posts

Implementing & Managing Certificates for APEX in OCI

As part of your deployment of your APEX application(s), you might want to make them accessible outside of your organisation's network to allow employees access to the..

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Oracle Forms Position in 2024

It's been a few years since my last blog on the Roadmap of Oracle Forms in 2021, so I thought it would be good to see what has been happening with Oracle Forms since then. I..

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Implementing CKEditor 5 in APEX 19

As is the case with web technologies, time moves on, and so does the usability, design and features of these technologies. That is no less the case with rich text editors.

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The Forms Roadmap in 2021

Find out how we can help you migrate your Oracle Forms applications to Oracle APEX with our award winning application development and consultancy services. There have been minimal..

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The Pitfalls of APEX Authentication with OAuth2

Find out how we can help you build solutions using Oracle APEX with our award winning application development and consultancy services . After another successful development and..

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Oracle Forms: Where Are We Now?

Find out how we can help you migrate your Oracle Forms applications to Oracle APEX with our award winning application development and consultancy services. Last year I wrote a..

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Time is running out: Do you have a plan for your Oracle Reports?

In a previous blog, I mentioned how Oracle Reports is now deprecated as of Fusion Middleware 12c Release 2 (12.2.1.3). This means no more new releases of Oracle Reports will be..

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Oracle Forms 12.2 New Features

For those looking to upgrade to the latest Oracle Forms version, here is a brief look at some of the notable new features introduced in the latest versions, 12.2.1.3 and 12.2.1.4...

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UKOUG Tech 18 Debrief: New Universal Theme features in APEX 18

In my first blog (ever) I am going to give you a flavour of what I saw at the UKOUG Tech18 Conference in Liverpool. At the conference, I was mainly concentrating on the talks..

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