APEX 4.0 Websheets - Behind the scenes

Tomorrow during my presentation about Team Collaboration in APEX 4.0, I’ll talk about Websheets. While I was going over my presentation again I came accross two things I thought are interesting.

The first; if you want to search in SQL Workshop for the Websheets table, you want to type APEX$ as they all start with that. However if you type APEX$ in the search it doesn’t find the tables. To find the tables you have to escape the $ sign, so your search becomes “APEX\$”, then SQL Workshop finds the tables.

Secondly, when you have a closer look at the columns, it’s commenly known there are 50 date, 50 numbers and 50 varchar2 columns. But I didn’t notice before, there is also a Geocode column in the definition of the table. The last weeks I’m involved in a project that uses Geocodes, so I find it interesting to see there’s already something in Websheets for that…