Philip Ratcliffe

Philip is a Development Consultant at DSP. Building on considerable experience in development including using Oracle PL/SQL and supporting Oracle EBS, Philip is employing APEX to provide quality, bespoke software solutions to a range of organisations.

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Latest Posts

Mar 27, 2025 11:10:02 AM

Oracle APEX Support for Hierarchical REST Source Data Profiles

Until recently, Oracle APEX, via functionality such as REST Data Sources, could only extract a flat JSON structure. From release 24.1, however, APEX can now understand and..

Aug 9, 2024 9:14:32 AM

APEX Approvals and Workflow Enhancements

As part of APEX release 24.1, there are several improvements to the Approvals and Workflow functionality. My colleague, Colin Archer, wrote a blog about the Workflow Designer,..

Feb 12, 2024 12:40:51 PM

APEX Execution Chain Process

Oracle APEX 23.1 introduced some process improvements, including a new process type: Execution Chain, which allows you to create a sequence of processes executed in the foreground..

Jun 21, 2023 12:14:41 PM

Introduction to Integrating APEX with Twilio

Twilio is a cloud communications platform whose aim is to drive communications to and from your applications. In this blog, I have an introductory look at Twilio and explore how..

Dec 15, 2022 10:55:36 AM

More New Features of APEX 22.2

A few weeks ago, immediately after the release of APEX 22.2, my colleague, Lee Burgess, wrote a blog titled APEX 22.2 - New Features Spotlight. This focused on three of the key..

Placing Components Anywhere in APEX 21.2

Jul 5, 2022 9:40:16 AM

Placing Components Anywhere since APEX 21.2

With the release of APEX v21.2 Oracle promised that page components can be positioned anywhere. With additional component positions across page templates, developers can enjoy..

Sep 29, 2021 3:20:32 PM

APEX 21.1 Application Data Loading

Apr 21, 2021 9:57:00 AM

APEX Automations

As part of the release of Application Express 20.2, Oracle announced the inclusion of APEX Automations. But what are they? And are they any good?

Nov 19, 2020 10:31:00 AM

APEX Native Mega Menu

Find out how we can help you build solutions using Oracle APEX with our award winning application development and consultancy services . Oracle has recently released APEX version..