It seems if I post only once a year, it's for Joel Kallman Day... Last year I hinted of a small side story to a remediation project th...

My current project has involved rebuilding the entire aging stack for an environment that's currently 95% Forms, with any new work devel...

To honour this year's #JoelKallmanDay, I'd like to use this as an opportunity to speak about mental health, rather than get technica...

Now I feel extremely luck to live in a part of the world that has been relatively free of impact from COVID-19, certainly from a societal he...

 It's lockdown on a long weekend, and Oracle APEX 21.1 has just been deployed to apex.oracle.com , how could I not have a play? We'v...

Ahem. select apex_string.format(q'[It's been %s days since my last confession]' ,trunc(Sysdate) - date...

The world has obviously lost a number of in-person conferences in recent times, but luckily we have people like Martin who asked the APEX c...

In my previous post about tweaking APEX classic reports, most of the settings were "low-code" configurations. All except the final...

I like classic reports in Oracle APEX. They're so versatile, and while it may not look it in this example, adjusting particular declar...

While I point out a 'hidden' setting for Switch items in APEX, I want to comment on two related item types found in Oracle APEX =...

There are APEX dictionary views for most of the data that represents the 'source' that is your APEX application meta-data. Note:  ...

Just an observation made yesterday that I thougt was worth everone's consideration. I created a classic report on a reference table wi...

I don't care what you all think , this is my blog, and I continue to laugh at this SQL joke. select column_value from apex_string.spli...

As a science aficionado, there are certain phrases that ... catch the eye. Recently on twitter there was an interesting thread that conti...

Have you seen that super awesome theme in the new APEX version, then wondered how long it will it be before your site upgrades so you can ac...