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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..

17-Jan-2018 10:33:39

Introducing APEX TabLock

A little side project of mine is developing new features for a chrome extension which provides extra functionality for the APEX developer.

11-Jan-2018 10:34:01

ORDS, OAuth2 & Web Services in APEX – Part 3

Calling Web Services from APEX The following blog will show you how to call GET method Web Service from an APEX 5.1 application and extract the response data. It will also show..

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..

14-Dec-2017 13:55:27

Oracle Forms – The venerable statesman with a cloudy future

Back in August 2015 I wrote a blog titled ‘The Future of Forms’ and a colleague of mine, Jon Lingard, followed this up in December 2015 by writing a continuation based upon his..

08-Dec-2017 11:03:20

Getting to Grips with the APEX Interactive Grid API

Whilst attending Tech17 at Birmingham this year, I was pleased to see David Peake provide a short demonstration of the Oracle Interactive Grid API documentation. The documentation..