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Oracle APEX Best Practices

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Oracle APEX Best Practices

Overview of this book

Have you ever wanted to create real-world database applications? In this book you're not only getting APEX best practices, but will also take into account the total environment of an APEX application and benefit from it."Oracle APEX Best Practices" will guide you through the development of real-world applications. It will give you a broader view of APEX. The various aspects include setting up APEX environment, testing and debugging, security, and getting the best out of SQL and PL/SQL.In six distinct chapters you will learn about different features of Oracle APEX as well as SQL and PL/SQL.Do you maximize the capabilities of Oracle APEX? Do you use all the power that SQL and PL/SQL have to offer? Do you want to learn how to build a secure, fully functional application? Then this is the book you'll need. "Oracle APEX: Best Practices" is where practical development begins!
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Oracle APEX Best Practices
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Securing Oracle Application Express for administrators


Oracle Application Express is secure, but developers can make it insecure.

Protecting the database environment

Oracle Application Express runs in the database, so the database environment needs to be protected.

Follow the principle of least privilege, so a user only has access to the resources required. Lock or remove unused users. Use sensible passwords, and do not use the same password for SYS and SYSTEM.

Note

This document provides a checklist for security in the Oracle database

Document # 131752.1: Security Checklist at the My Oracle Support website.

The best way to secure data in your APEX application, or any application, is to secure your data in the database. You can do this by using Oracle's Virtual Private Database.