Application Express OGH Day

APEX OGH Day at Tuesday the 22th of March
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It was an exciting day with 250 attendees.
It is very clear that Application Express is very popular in the Netherlands.

The day started with three plenary sessions.
The first presentation was hosted by Tony Andrews and Nigel Blair.
1500 forms applications were migrated to Oracle Application Express.
A big project but the result is there!
So it is possible!

Hilary Farrell member from the application express development team presented about the new features in application express 4.1.
The most important new features are listed in the statement of direction.

Dimitri Gielis and John Scott gave a helicopter overview "How to deal with big application express projects". This proofs that application express can be used in big projects as well!

After the lunch break there were three parallel sessions available.
A lot of good presentations were available, so it was hard to make a good choice.
My own presentation was dealing about the awareness of security.
You need to think about security from the beginning of a project. Every line of code has consequences for the security. Security is your own responsibility and not from Oracle! Application express is secure, but developers make it insecure.

After my own session, I decided to follow the presentation from John Scott about 'How to build a application express plug-in' A lot of times, I can find a lot of information how to import a plug-in in application express, and rarely the information about the way How to build a plug-in. I am 100% sure that this was useful for everybody in the audience.

The last session of the day I attended was the presentation from Dimitri Gielis about APEX and Locator/Spatial. I can only say, I was impressed and could not believe my eyes and ears about the possibilities available.

It was a very busy day with very good presentations and content.

After the show was closed, I had a very nice dinner with
Alex Nuijten, Learco Brizzi, Christian Rokkita, Peter Raganitsch, Roel Hartman and Jan Leendert.

Thanks all for the nice evening!

Oracle Database Firewall

I want to bring under your attention, the new Oracle Product, the Database Firewall.

Information at Oracle Technology Network about the Database Firewall

External FAQ

APEX Cookbook signed

Yesterday evening, I received the first official signed cookbook.
This book is written by Michel van Zoest and Marcel van der Plas.

At the picture, you can see Michel van der Zoest because Marcel van der Plas was not available.

Of course, I was very honored to receive the book and I am looking forward to read the complete book.

The book and description of the book.

APEX Patch Set 4.0.2.00.07

It's a re-release of 4.0.2.00.06
+ One Off Patches 10347091 and 10406645

Patch 4.0.2.00.07

End of Year

It was a wonderful year.
Highlight of the year was Application Express 4.0!
Application Express is a wonderful and powerful product!

The new statement of direction of Application Express makes me happy too.
New statement of direction

I enjoyed the different APEX conferences very much and hope to meet you face to face at one of the conferences.

Looking forward to the new challenges in 2011!

Merry Christmas and Happy and Healthy 2011 for you and your family!

Thank you all for the wonderful year!

Installation of APEX 4.0.2 with Oracle 11g 11.2.0.2.0 Failed - ORA-43853

Environment
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APEX version 4.0.2 Fresh Installation
RDBMS 11.2.0.2
Table Space were Application Express is installed: MANUAL

ERROR at line 1:
ORA-43853: SECUREFILE lobs cannot be used
ORA-06512: at line 7

What works
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* Installation from APEX version 4.0.2 against Rdbms 11.2.0.1
* Installation from APEX version 4.0.2 against Rdbms 11.2.0.2 with Table Space set to AUTO were Application Express is installed

Underlying Cause
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A difference in the behavior exists between the 11.2.0.1 and 11.2.0.2 databases and the underlying space management of table spaces. When installing APEX, the underlying table space were APEX is to be installed must to be set to AUTO.

Solution
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Set the table space were APEX is to be installed to AUTO.

UKOUG Conference 2010

This year, I attended for the first time the UK Oracle User Group.
The UK user group is the biggest in Europe.

The UK user group has many different tracks available. ( Server/ Fusion Middleware/ APEX/ E-business suite/ MySql etc)

I cannot choose between ODTUG in the US and UK Oracle User Group.
The best people around the world are presenting.
Therefore, I was extra honored to be a speaker at this conference!

During the conference, I attended many different kind of sessions in different kind of streams.
To broadening my knowledge, I also attended sessions dealing about ADF.

My presentation was scheduled at Tuesday and I was a little bit concerned because it was the last presentation of the day. I was very happy with the amount of people in my room.

I also like to take the opportunity to congratulate John Scott with the well deserved 'presentation award 2009'!
John is awarded for his 'Scalability in APEX' presentation.


In the evening, I joined the dinner with APEX Development team.

I really hope to come back next year!