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

27-Mar-2025 11:10:02

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..

21-Jun-2023 12:14:41

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..

15-Dec-2022 10:55:36

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

05-Jul-2022 09:40:16

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..

21-Dec-2017 10:07:04

Options For Loading Excel Data Into APEX Applications

Excel is still widely used across many organisations as a standard reporting tool, often being used as a substitute for small databases. As a consequence, it has become necessary..