Historical correction, 14 October 2026: The launch timeline is now linked to Tom Kyte’s own account. Unsupported personal-answer totals and the unsourced retirement year have
You have exported an Oracle APEX application as SQL at least once. What came out was a single file, four thousand lines long, full of
It was a Tuesday afternoon. One query. No WHERE clause. Fourteen thousand customer records, gone in under a second. That story is not unique. It
Your Oracle APEX app is live. The business is growing. Then someone in the meeting asks: “Can we have this in German?” If you built
You are three hours into Page Designer. Login page done. Dashboard shell done. Two report pages in. Eight more to go and the client wants
The Developer’s Bonfire • Episode 01 • June 27, 2026 A monthly series of industry folklore, retold over coffee. Published every last Friday of the
The first time I worked with Oracle APEX dynamic actions, I deleted the wrong setting in Page Designer and spent twenty minutes wondering why my
Same skills, very different pay. A personal view from inside Pakistan’s Oracle scene, with the numbers and their limits made explicit. I shipped a PL/SQL
You have spent years clicking through Page Designer. You know every dropdown, every property panel, every “Save” button. And then Oracle APEX 26.1 dropped with
Oracle APEX 26.1 dropped on May 14, 2026. The release notes run 90+ pages. You have production apps, deadlines, and real work waiting. So here