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APEX + DB Operator: Deploying Customer Managed ORDS for ADB with the Oracle Database Operator on OKE

When you provision an Autonomous Database instance, by default Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) is preconfigured and available for the instance. When ...

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DB Containers: Free Oracle Database for Developers

You don’t have an Oracle Cloud Account?!!!
What? Not even a free one? Ok, ok, let me catch my breadth and settle down …
How are you going to ride the ...

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APEX: Integrating with Oracle Digital Assistant Dynamic Entities

This article explores two integration options between the Oracle Database and Oracle Digital Assistant (ODA) to manage Dynamic Entities.
It was actual...

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SQL Developer for VS Code 25.1: Connection Folders are here! Oracle SQL Developer Extension for VS Code v25.1 is now available! This release includes the ability to organize your connections via folders (and subfolders!)

The latest update for our Oracle SQL Developer Extension for VS Code (25.1) is now available.

Tons of new features and bug fixes included.

www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2025...

Next scheduled update will be June and 25.2.

APEX: Oracle SaaS - Extending Aconex Construction Management

The last few weeks I was engaged with a customer project requiring integration with Oracle Aconex. Oracle acquired Aconex in 2017, adding it to Oracle’s Construction and Engineering Cloud portfolio al...

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APEX: Workflow Development Practices - Part I

I’d like to begin a social dialog around APEX Workflows, specifically around better development and runtime practices. This will be a learn as we go and longer term exercise as we implement & discover...

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APEX: Integration Playground - Bluesky

In what can be considered the Part I of this Integration Playground Series I ranted about Reading Posts from Hashnode. The end goal was to be able to re-post the existing content to other platforms, s...

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APEX: Integration Playground - Hashnode

When I started blogging I used a single platform and service, I was not actually concerned with readers or followers, it was just for me, a journal or rant of the day.
In today’s world, content creato...

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APEX: Integration Playground - Adobe PDF Services

APEX: Using Workflows Static IDs

I’ve been working with APEX Workflows since its release and I’m still finding my way and establishing better practices for this feature. Customising Task and Workflow pages is one area that I’ve explo...

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ORDS: Using URI Patterns to protect Resources

Creating and publishing RESTful APIs from the database is pretty common and fairly simple with Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS). In most cases those exposed APIs would be protected with an API Gateway...

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APEX: Displaying Human Task Request Details

APEX announced the Approval Task in 2022 and this feature has continued to evolve support both approval and action tasks. Tasks are a unique component in APEX where a search component like report list...

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APEX: Understand the Sample OCI Document Generator App

The release note for APEX version 19.1 announced that Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS)-based Printing was Deprecated and it would be removed in future releases.
In the next release (19.2) it was sent ...

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APEX: Viewing Images and Videos from OCI Object Storage

I’m not going to answer this question as many of the examples and samples that explore beyond the simple UI calls, seem to involve some level of earnest coding and I’m no developer, so this .. this is...

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APEX: OCI Speech Integration

The dominance of Generative AI + AI in conversations is undeniable, encroaching on daily work with the promise of replacing ineffective, inefficient, and cumbersome communication methods, like email o...

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APEX: Filtering Fusion REST Integrations

Part III: Find by Advanced Search Query
In my discovery and test attempts, I stumbled upon this highly flexible, configurable, and effective way to retrieve Fusion SaaS data and business objects.
I ca...

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APEX: Filtering Fusion REST Integrations

Although this is not specific to APEX, it is certainly an item on any integration list of requirements. The ability to reduce data processing and ingestion loads and increasing response time to reques...

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APEX: Filtering Fusion REST Integrations

On my Fusion extension journey I ran into an error or lack there of, that lead to a conversation and the discovery of the Fusion REST Filtering.
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REST and remote tend to be in tandem an...

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APEX: Extending Fusion /describe

Oracle provides Cloud Infrastructure and Applications services via its globally distributed data centres. The Software as a Service (SaaS) suite provides business applications in many functional areas...

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APEX: Rest Request Body Templates

Integrating APEX with OCI Document Understanding
My customer engagements have allowed me to explore the integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as an APEX developer.
Once these projects res...

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APEX: Make REST Request via PL/SQL

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Today's post will be short and sweet and along the lines of APEX & Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) integrations using the OCI REST APIs.
In a recent customer engagement, the were see...

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RTFM: Dinosaurs on the Battlefield -> Oracle OCI REST APIs

Before Getting Started
I am engaged when customers want to try something new, often consuming some restful service from an application they've only been an end user of. In the world of APEX, Oracle Cl...

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