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Be Careful With Oracle SE2 – Especially With RAC!

Updated 02/05/2019

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The Future of Oracle Forms

DSP is known in the UK as a leading APEX development consultancy, so you might be wondering why I’m writing a blog about Oracle Forms. Before working with APEX I was an Oracle..

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Breaking out of beginner charting

So you may have created several charts within APEX already, and there are plenty of templates available for these such as Line, Bar, Stacked, etc.

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The Benefits of APEX for Small Development Teams

I recently completed a piece of work which really shows the benefits of adopting APEX within a company with a small development team.

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Accessing values from the left hand side of an APEX Shuttle

In APEX, the value of the shuttle item is a colon delimited string representing the contents of the right hand side.

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JavaScript Debugging in APEX 5 (at last)

In APEX 4.2, I would debug JavaScript code using the alert() function. I would use this to show information about variables and the steps taken through code.

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List of new database objects in APEX 5

Along with launch of the fantastic APEX 5.0 Early Adopter 3 came a tweet from Joel Kallman describing the location of the APEX 5.0 BETA Documentation.

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We're not just Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server DBAs

We’re not just Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server DBAs Smart, innovative and fun are just some words to describe the company and its employees. Our passion as DSP employees is..

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Alternative Save Before Exit

Prompting the user to save before exiting the page is functionality that isn’t unusual for developers and users to request from an APEX application.

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Combining Validations with Dynamic Actions

APEX has an extensive set of built-in validations to capture every eventuality. They pop up an informative notification message and can direct the user directly to the fault.

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