Damn, APEX Page deleted! What now?

You know that feeling when you’re working hard on a system, did a lot of changes, finally get the required result and start clean up old code?

I was in that stage… but then it went wrong: I deleted the wrong components and even some pages…

So what do you do then? What would you do in a not-APEX development environment? Getting an old file back, but what if you changed multiple files? Go back into source control and get the latest release? But are you using source control?

I was lucky as in APEX I could just Export my application as a few minutes ago. The below screen shows this feature to you.

Your database needs to have Flashback enabled for this, but who’s database is not running in archivelog mode and has the flash recovery area enabled?

Maybe some of you didn’t know about this possibility, it’s definitely a nice one.