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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!
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Oracle APEX Best Practices
Credits
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Credits
About the Authors
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About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
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Preface
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Preface
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Prepare and Build
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Prepare and Build
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History and background
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Installing APEX
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Choosing a web server
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Creating a second administrator
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Database
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Creating a workspace
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User Interface Defaults
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Page Zero
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Structure of multiple applications
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Creating applications
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Summary
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Leveraging the Database
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Leveraging the Database
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Instrumentation
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Efficient lookup tables
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Analytic functions
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Aggregate functions
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Searching the contents of documents
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Summary
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Printing
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Printing
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Printing architecture
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Installation and configuration of the Apache FOP report server
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How to debug or troubleshoot printing issues
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How to check if network services are enabled
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Creating a report with BI Publisher
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How to create a report that can deliver output in different formats
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How to add a chart to a report
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How to add dynamic images to a report
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Print API
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How to bypass the 32K limit
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Alternatives to use for PDF printing
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Plugins
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Summary
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Security
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Security
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Securing Oracle Application Express for administrators
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Virtual Private Database
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Security considerations when installing Oracle Application Express
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Security considerations for the developer
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Summary
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Debugging and Troubleshooting
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Debugging and Troubleshooting
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Debugging an APEX page
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APEX_APPLICATION.G_DEBUG
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APEX and Oracle SQL Developer
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Remote debugging
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JavaScript console wrapper
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Web development tools
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Summary
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Deploy and Maintain
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Deploy and Maintain
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Package your application, or not?
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Deploying the database packages
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Deploying the APEX application
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Being active and proactive
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Summary
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Database Cloud Service and APEX 4.2
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Database Cloud Service and APEX 4.2
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Oracle Public Cloud
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Index
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Index

APEX_APPLICATION.G_DEBUG

The APEX_APPLICATION package enables users to take advantage of global variables. The apex_application.g_debug variable refers to whether debugging is currently switched on or off. Valid values for this variable are TRUE or FALSE.

Turning debug ON shows details about application processing.

For example:

IF apex_application.g_debug THEN 
  apex_debug_message.log_message('Custom Validation'); 
END IF;

Including the preceding code in the APEX page, anywhere where PL/SQL is allowed, will add information visible in APEX_DEBUG_MESSAGES, and therefore in the View Debug page. This information will only be added when apex_application.g_debug evaluates to TRUE.

The debug Advanced Programming Interface (API)

The APEX_DEBUG_MESSAGE package provides utility functions for managing the debug message log. Specifically, this package provides the necessary APIs to instrument and debug PL/SQL code contained within the APEX application as well as the PL/SQL code in database stored procedures...

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