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18-Apr-2018 11:49:57

Application Support with APEX Applications: Looking After the Users when Development has Finished

Although at Explorer we spend most of our time creating brand-new bespoke APEX applications or completing Forms to APEX projects; sometimes we are asked to work on and/or support..

11-Apr-2018 12:23:17

New REST features of 18.1 (Early Adopter 2)

I recently published a set of blogs on the subject of ORDS, Outh2 and Web Services in APEX 5.1. In part three (available here) I detailed how to use a REST Service as the source..

21-Mar-2018 10:21:15

Oracle Cloud: Universal Credits. What you need to know…

In September 2017, Oracle announced a change to their Cloud pricing and transaction model for end users and partners alike. The change was born out of poor customer experience..

08-Mar-2018 11:42:31

APEX Developer Mode

When I used to work with Oracle Forms, the company I worked for used to grant users on the development environment with a special role which provided enhanced access to many areas..

16-Feb-2018 11:03:45

Interactive Grid Column Read Only Control

Find out how we can help you build solutions using Oracle APEX with our award-winning application development and consultancy services. I thought it would be interesting to share..

14-Feb-2018 10:52:59

Oracle Database Versions – Difference between 11g, 12c and 18c

Oracle Database is still one of the world’s most popular, trusted database systems providing services for some of the largest companies. All the different versions provide a..

12-Feb-2018 12:17:46

Secure the Cloud: The Future of Cloud Computing & Security

In a digitally contemporary society, there’s been extensive conversations about cloud computing and cloud storage, like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. Seen..

12-Feb-2018 11:53:56

Top 10 Cloud Myths

Unpredictably, Clouds are exposed to the risks of myths. According to David Mitchell Smith, Gartner Fellow and Vice President, myths prove to obstruct innovation and often..

12-Feb-2018 08:58:34

APEX Interactive Grid: Preventing Lost Updates & Record Locking

Find out how we can help you build solutions using Oracle APEX with our award-winning application development and consultancy services. I was recently asked about the Interactive..

24-Jan-2018 15:51:49

Querying an Oracle Database Using Amazon Alexa

At the UKOUG Tech17 conference last year, I delivered a presentation called APEX and the Internet of Things. As part of this presentation, I wanted to demonstrate how to query the..