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...

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

A few years ago I posted a comparison between plugin code left in the source attribute, vs code that has been transferred to a PL/SQL packa...

This post was inspired by the fact I couldn't find many good references for what I thought was 'previously discovered truth'. So...

I've been using the lazy loading concept demonstrated in Maxime's post  quite a lot recently, I'd love to see this as a declarat...

Our office kitchen is unavailable this Friday, so the call was put out for pub lunch. After a couple of replies I decided to enter my repl...

Yep, I'm still doing this. A bunch of questions to come, many worth the visit. Just a few weeks between drinks, so to speak. My annual r...

I've been operating with a 12c environment this year and I can see some standard patterns of mine changing. One is the use of triggers...

Last month I wrote a post about CSS performance , including some performance test results. I recently encountered this brilliant post on M...

My post describing the use of a simple selector identifying page spinners was originally going to be about performance, then I learned some...

One of the simplest tuning techniques to encapsulate PL/SQL used in APEX within packages, minimising the size of anonymous blocks. This appl...

If you're using dynamic SQL to source your menus and you're utilising the apex_application_pages dictionary view to build you list o...

APEX 5 EA has shown some interesting improvements in regard to performance. Icons If you haven't noticed the swelling trend of flat ...

I often think about performance of conditional expressions. I'm not just talking about the expense of whatever the test is, but the diff...

Note to fellow programmer: just wondering why the yearn for multiple subqueries when it seems a simple group by would suffice? If you see ...

When I was first learning Oracle Application Express, I found one of the trickiest things was deciphering when to use which substitution str...

One of the checks in the APEX Advisor is to determine if any instances of the v() function exist within your SQL. This confirms one of th...