The APEX Developer ReinventedAI is changing how we build software. And that also changes the role of the Oracle APEX developer.Mar 15, 2026·5 min read
A story about Joel and APEX Office Print (AOP) #JoelKallmanDaySince this is the special Joel Kallman day, I thought to share a story about how document generation with AOP started at Oracle's internal APEX environment. Today it might be normal for people to use APEX Office Print (AOP) to do their document gener...Oct 11, 2023·2 min read
Compare 2 Oracle APEX pagesI wanted to know if a page was the same within the same application. Two (+1 in Oracle APEX 22.1+) features in Oracle APEX help to compare pages, which you find under the tools menu: Checksum and Export: The checksum will show the checksum of the pa...Aug 15, 2023·2 min read
The application alias "X" can not be converted to a unique application ID.You get this error when two or more Oracle APEX applications have the same alias. When you import the sample application in the same workspace and give it a different ID, the alias is changed automatically so it's unique. However when you import an a...Aug 4, 2023·1 min read
Oracle APEX: the Power of the Activity LogsThe issue Have you ever had those moments when an end-user calls you out of the blue with a disturbing message about your app? It happened to me last week; an end-user called in a panic with the message, "all my inspections are gone!" FYI: This Oracl...Feb 22, 2023·5 min read
Fix for ORDS connection pool named |default|lo| is not able to proxy to the schemaToday on our server running ORDS 22.4 and Oracle APEX 22.2 we had a weird error: The database user for the connection pool named |default|lo|, is not able to proxy to the schema named ET_DEV. This could be a configured restriction on the maximum numb...Jan 13, 2023·1 min read
Restarting to blogAt the beginning of the year, I tend to reflect on the last year(s). When looking back this year I realized that in the last 15 years things changed in the amount I blogged. I love Oracle Application Express (APEX) and started my blog to share what I...Jan 1, 2023·3 min read
