Inside Oracle APEX by Patrick Wolf

New Competence Center for Oracle APEX – New Oracle APEX Blog

A few days ago I noticed that I have never blogged about two important events where I have been involved last year. As you may have noticed I’m doing a lot with Oracle Application Express, so does the company (Sphinx IT) I’m working for.

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Integrate Speech Recognition into Oracle APEX

Tyler Muth has posted a really cool example on how to integrate Oracle APEX with another service. Jott is a speech recognition service and allows to integrate third party applications into there service. Tyler used this mechanism to write the output text of the speech recognition into the table of an Oracle APEX application. Read all [...]

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Remote debugging of an Oracle APEX application

If you ever wanted to remote debug the PL/SQL code which is called during execution of an Oracle APEX application, then have a look at the May/June issue of the Oracle Magazine. David Peake wrote an article titled The Power of Two on how to use SQL Developer to do that. On the German Oracle [...]

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Building Interactive Reports in Oracle APEX 3.1

In the newest issue of Oracle Magazine, David Peake has written an article about Building Interactive Reports. “The” new feature of the upcoming Oracle APEX 3.1. If you haven’t looked at the beta yourself, this article is a good chance to get some more details about this exciting new feature of Oracle APEX. BTW David, reading the [...]

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Should you consider Apache 2.0 for an Oracle APEX installation?

Just read a very interesting posting by Joel Kallman, titled Oracle HTTP Server, Apache 2.0 and connection pooling. Before Oracle 11g, mod_plsql was just available for Apache 1.3 which had one big drawback on Unix systems. Apache 1.3 just supports a process model which prevents that mod_plsql can really take use of a database connection [...]

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More Oracle APEX blogs

I don’t know how this blogs could hide for such a long time from my Oracle Application Express (APEX) radar, but there are two new Oracle APEX blogs out there. Paulo Vale has started his Oracle Apex Notebook blog back in September and Jason his APEXWONDER blog in October. So check them out and give them [...]

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Survey: XML in the database

Note: The following article is in German, because the referenced blog is written in German. Der Carsten Czarski, auch bekannt für seine tolle Arbeit auf den Seiten der deutschen Oracle APEX Community, macht gerade auf seinem Blog SQL und PL/SQL in Oracle eine Umfrage zum Thema “XML in der Datenbank“. Vielleicht schaut Ihr ja schnell mal [...]

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Another blogger from the Oracle APEX team!

I want to welcome David Peake, the product manager for Oracle Application Express (APEX) in the Oracle APEX blogging community. A quote from David My intention is to use this Blog to inform people on new things happening within APEX. One of my other reasons for starting the blog is because there are times when I [...]

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Some interesting postings

In the past few weeks there have been a few interesting APEX related postings I want to share with you. Anthony Rayner started his own APEX blog and did an interesting posting about AJAX retrieval using Javascript Object Notation (JSON). Something I also want to integrate into one of the next versions of my ApexLib Framework. Carl [...]

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Oracle APEX blog community is growing

The Oracle APEX blog community is growing and growing. In the last few weeks 7 new APEX related blogs have been started. Check out the blogs of Duncan Mein Timoshinin Evgeny (in Russia) Welcome on board!

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