Surfacing Invisible Business Rules with SQL Assertions & AII saw Dimitri's post on SQL Assertions today and it piqued my curiosity. Putting more business rules closer to data is almost always a great idea, as you can now call DML from any technology and rest Mar 20, 2026·5 min read·301
Adding AI to APEX-SERTRecently, I’ve been asked several times: when will APEX-SERT have AI embedded in it? It’s a valid question, considering the unprecedented proliferation of AI across nearly every product. Heck, even my mouse has an AI button now, so why not put it int...Jul 30, 2025·7 min read·505
APEX-SERT: Now AvailableAfter a long and thorough set of mandatory legal processes, I’m happy to announce that starting today, APEX-SERT is back and available for the community to download and use! It’s still open source, and can be used as much and as often as you like for...Apr 22, 2025·2 min read·2.2K
Exploring a SaaS API PlatformIf you followed my last post, you should have integrated Jira Cloud & APEX so that you can see projects, issues and comments from the APEX side. As you may have inferred, building that application did take some time, most of which was spent on learni...Jan 28, 2025·13 min read·458
Configuring the APEX & Jira EnvironmentsSetting up an Atlassian Account & Oracle APEX WorkspaceJan 7, 2025·10 min read·1.2K
Preserving the Oracle Database ContainerIn our last post, we added DBMS_CLOUD to our Oracle 23ai Container. Since that change was done via adding database objects, the version of our container is now different than what we had downloaded. Additionally, we’ve upgraded the database objects f...Dec 17, 2024·3 min read·279
Adding DBMS_CLOUD to our Oracle Container Database - UPDATEThis morning, Steve Muench pointed out something in my recent post about Adding DBMS_CLOUD to your Oracle Container Database: It is no longer necessary to configure a database wallet in Oracle Database 23ai! Connor McDonald provides the details here ...Dec 16, 2024·1 min read·145
