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March 7, 2023 Uncategorized

Avoiding INSERT glitches with SQL*Plus and SQLcl

Sometimes in data centric applications, we want to store metadata (such as HTML or CSS or other such text) in

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July 12, 2022 Uncategorized

Digging deeper into SQL under APEX

For the many cases, simply having an EXPLAIN PLAN function will do the job when it comes to tuning SQL.

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November 12, 2021 Uncategorized

Formula 1 data–staying up to date

Just an addenda to what I posted last week about downloading the Formula 1 motor racing data where I provided

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November 5, 2021 Uncategorized

APEX demos – Formula 1 Racing Data ?

Naturally there was an overwhelming urge to title this post “The Need for Speed” and sprinkle Maverick and Goose references

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June 15, 2021 Uncategorized

APEX 21.1.1 – the first round of improvements

I posted late last year about how to query APEX patch updates directly from the database. Now that APEX 21

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May 28, 2021 Uncategorized

RIP Joel Kallman

If you’d like to share a memory of Joel, please head over to http://apex.oracle.com/joel Joel’s kind-heartedness can best be seen

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May 17, 2021 Uncategorized

Blazingly fast documentation search with APEX

The Oracle documentation set is my bread and butter for day to day work. With AskTom questions, StackOverflow question, Einstein

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May 13, 2021 Uncategorized

APEX_DATA_PARSER turbo boost!

One of the most common recommendations I’ll make to customers who post questions on AskTom is “Install APEX even if

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April 22, 2021 Uncategorized

Much ado about (paying) nothing

A couple of days ago, we announced some more free goodies to Oracle Cloud. As most readers will know, we

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December 21, 2020 Uncategorized

The APEX PSE christmas present!

Its always nice to get fixes to bug just in time for christmas. A while ago I posted an example

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