Oracle APEX Toast Notification: 5 Beautiful JS Libraries
Oracle APEX’s built-in success message is functional but plain. Here are 5 vanilla JS toast libraries, Toastify, SweetAlert2, Notyf, iziToast, and Toastr, with drop-in code for APEX.
Oracle APEX ORDS Connection Pool Exhaustion: A Real Incident, Two Root Causes, One Permanent Fix
A real production incident: how a correlated subquery in an interactive report and three unconditional AJAX calls exhausted an Oracle APEX ORDS connection pool, and the permanent fix.
Oracle Backend for Firebase (Fusabase) on a Self-Hosted Dockerized Oracle Database + ORDS Stack
A real, hands-on field report on enabling Oracle Backend for Firebase (Fusabase) on a self-hosted Dockerized Oracle Database + ORDS stack, then building a working Flutter app on top of it.
The Man Who Answered Every Oracle Question Ever Asked
For nearly two decades, one man personally answered every Oracle question the internet could throw at him. This is the story of Tom Kyte and AskTom.
APEXlang Tutorial: How to Edit, Validate, and Import Oracle APEX Apps Without Touching Page Designer
Learn how to export, edit, validate, and import Oracle APEX apps using APEXlang in APEX 26.1. This apexlang tutorial covers SQLcl commands, VS Code code completion, AI skills, and the APEXlang View in Page Designer.
Stop Running These 5 SQL Queries on Your Production Database
Five SQL queries production database developers run every day and regret. SELECT *, DELETE without WHERE, TRUNCATE, and more. With exact fixes for each one.
5 Simple Steps to Build an Oracle APEX Multilingual App Without Shadow Applications (APEX 26.1)
Learn how to build an Oracle APEX multilingual app in 5 simple steps using the new Text Message-Based translation in APEX 26.1. No shadow apps. No parallel maintenance. Real screenshots included.
Oracle APEX Blueprint Scaffolding in 26.1: A Real Walkthrough With 3 Errors and Actual Fixes
I used Oracle APEX Blueprint scaffolding in 26.1 to generate a 19-page Inventory Management app from a Markdown file using Claude Code. Here is the full walkthrough, including every error I hit and exactly how I fixed each one.
Why Oracle Database Never Had a Version 1
Every Oracle developer has asked it. Why does Oracle Database start at Version 2? The true story behind Oracle Database Version 1 is stranger and smarter than you think.
Oracle APEX Dynamic Actions Made Easy with 5 Best Examples
A beginner-friendly guide to Oracle APEX dynamic actions covering every event, action type, and 5 real examples you can copy into your next app today.