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Jon Dixon @jon.cloudnueva.com · 15/10/2025

Please read my latest post, where I explore how the Oracle SQLcl MCP Server can help you build higher-quality APEX Apps more quickly. #orclAPEX #mcp #sqlcl blog.cloudnueva.com/oracle-sqlcl...

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Oracle SQLcl MCP Server Setup and Usage

Deep dive into how the Oracle SQLcl MCP Server and your preferred development tool can help you build higher-quality software more quickly.

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 15/10/2025

A little help from me at the #JoelKallmanDay for everyone who ever struggled with adding an avatar image in their Oracle APEX apps. Unfortunately, implementing such feature is not so straightforward, but here we go, see tutorial below 👇 #orclAPEX blog.apexapplab.dev/avatar-image...

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Avatar image in Oracle APEX

Using a REST Media Resource as an image source

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Oracle ACE Program @oracleace.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🚀 We’re excited to announce a brand-new entry path to the Oracle ACE Program: ACE Apprentice—launching at Oracle AI World! ♠️ The ACE Apprentice level is designed to kickstart your journey as an Oracle advocate and unlock your potential within the global community. 🔒 🔑 💻 👉 ace.oracle.com/apprentice

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 20/08/2025

My last 4 ideas about Oracle APEX are now on the Roadmap 💡 Your voice and your ideas matter! #orclAPEX

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 18/08/2025

⚠️ Remember to fix your APEX applications Social Sign-in settings! The free APEX evaluation service is now moved to oracleapex.com. Which means that all of your applications, using Social Sign-in with Google, Office365, OKTA, etc. will fail unless you change the redirect URL in your SSO provider.

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 01/08/2025

I recently needed a quick (and reusable) way of setting up OCI Object Storage Buckets and access to them for a personal project. blog.apexapplab.dev/scripting-oc... Read my blog post to see how I scripted all the steps using the OCI CLI, using some help from AI and Jon Dixon's original tutorial ✨

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Scripting OCI Objects creation using CLI

Create and secure your Object Storage buckets using OCI CLI scripts

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Talan - Oracle Technologies @oracletechtalan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Tired of clunky interfaces? @apexapplab.dev‬ is here to show you how Corporate UI in APEX can be simpler than you think. Add his upcoming #Kscope25 session to your “must catch list.” #orclapex #UI

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 16/05/2025

Couldn't miss the opportunity - both certificates are now taken 🛄 Great learning materials and really nice practices - check them out, even if you don't plan to study for the exam 👍 catalog-education.oracle.com/ords/certvie... catalog-education.oracle.com/ords/certvie...

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Talan - Oracle Technologies @oracletechtalan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

We’re proud of our presenters heading to #Kscope25! Catch sessions by: ⭐ @adrian.fuzziebrain.com ⭐ @moreaux-louis.bsky.social ⭐ @apexapplab.dev ⭐ @haniel.bsky.socialadria ⭐ @richsoule.bsky.social From APEX to GenAI, our team’s bringing the heat. insum.talan.com/event/kscope... #orclapex

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 10/05/2025

For those who love running - here are my notes about the first ever marathon I completed - London Marathon 2025 🇬🇧 blog.apexapplab.dev/running-my-f...

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Running my first Marathon

TCS London Marathon 2025 🇬🇧

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Talan - Oracle Technologies @oracletechtalan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Supercharge your Oracle APEX apps with plug-and-play tools! Join us May 6 at 12 PM ET to learn how Talan’s APEX Accelerators save dev time & boost UX. #orclapex Register: createch.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 12/04/2025

On my way back home from APEX Alpe Adria in Zagreb 🇭🇷 Amazing sessions as you can expect and lots of things that I learned yesterday. But most importantly - great atmosphere, community and fun at the afterparty 🍻 Thanks to the organisers and to everyone who came to my session 👍 A little overview: ⤵️

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Louis Moreaux @moreaux-louis.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Amazing presentation "Corporate UI in APEX - easier than you think" by @apexapplab.dev at APEX Alpe Adria 🚀 #orclAPEX #aaapeks2025

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Visual Studio Code @vscode.dev · 11/04/2025

CANCEL YOUR WEEKEND PLANS Guess what just landed in @code?

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 08/04/2025

I did over 400 km in the past 2-3 months in preparation for the London Marathon. Right now I'm in the Peak phase of my training. Check the progress in my little "vibe coded" app below 🤙 marathon.apexapplab.dev

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Marathon Training Tracker

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Talan - Oracle Technologies @oracletechtalan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Join @moreaux-louis.bsky.social & @apexapplab.dev on at APEX Alpe Adria 2025. Don’t miss their sessions: - Why APEX devs should know HTML, CSS & Web APIs - How to build corporate UI in APEX—easier than you think! Learn more: insum.talan.com/event/apex-a... #orclapex #APEXAlpeAdria

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Kris Rice @krisrice.io · 20/03/2025

Here's the video of APEXLang that Mike Hichwa showed in his talk this morning at #APEXWorld2025 The is massive potential here from easier ci/cd to code reviews to AI trained on the language to tooling as we'll publish the grammar behind when it launches

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Chris Saxon @chrisrsaxon.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

APEX Lang is a new domain specific language you will be able to use to define Oracle APEX apps This is a human readable language designed to help you build and manage apps faster #apexworld2025 #orclapex

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 18/03/2025

I'm going to Oracle Cloud World 2025 in London this Thursday. Happy to chat and discuss the latest in our technology world 🤖 See you! 👋 🇬🇧

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 06/03/2025

The time has come - you can now upgrade your APEX instances in the Oracle Cloud Autonomous Database to 24.2 🎉 Together with the 23ai database release (available already) - a killer combo in the AI era 🤝 🤖 #orclAPEX #ATP #OCI

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 04/03/2025

Just had to migrate some of my connections from SQL Developer to VS Code (SQL Developer extension). Very easy and straightforward: 🔸 Right-click the top-level Oracle Connections node in SQL Developer’s Connections panel. 🔸 Select Export Connections and choose the connections to migrate ... ⤵️

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 26/02/2025

Okay, this is cool: project config -list -verbose Gives you description of all setting, available in the project.config.json file 💡

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 24/02/2025

Having fun with SQLcl - few observations: 🔸 For some reason I had a package that was exported using .pkb and .pks for the body and spec. After I upgraded to the latest version, I now have the package duplicated in my repository, because both files are exported with .sql extension. ... continues ⤵️

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 21/02/2025

Yes, updating the SQLcl version on my macbook is THAT simple: 🔸 Download the latest version archive 🔸 Extract to a folder (like sqlcl_new) 🔸 Rename your existing sqlcl folder (like sqlcl_old) 🔸 Rename sqlcl_new folder to sqlcl 🔸 Restart any open Terminal 🔸 plamen$ sql -v 🔸 SQLcl: Release 24.4.1.0 🎉

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Jon Dixon @jon.cloudnueva.com · 31/01/2025

Please read my latest post to learn how to use SQL scripts or Supporting Objects to re-enable APEX Automations automatically after deployment. #orclAPEX blog.cloudnueva.com/enable-apex-...

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Re-Enable APEX Automations Post-Deployment

Read how to use SQL scripts or Supporting Objects to automatically re-enable APEX Automations after deployment.

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 03/02/2025

Having your Jira integrated with Source Control tools is very convenient way to trace relation between code changes Jira certain tickets. It gives you traceability but also saves you time switching between systems. blog.apexapplab.dev/streamline-y... Setup is easy - check it out in my blog post ⤵️

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Streamline Your Development Workflow: Bitbucket and Jira Integration Guide

Track each code change to the ticket it was requested by

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 15/01/2025

This release of APEX looks like another hit. Lots of new features, AI integrations, RAG, Vector search, JSON duality views, new APIs and Utilities and core component enhancements. Will share more as I explore in the next days and weeks💡 docs.oracle.com/en/database/... #orclAPEX 24.2 for the win 🏆

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SQLDaily @sqldaily.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

AI Vector Search in Oracle Database 23ai enables semantic searches using vectors But how do you generate the vectors? Mark Hornick covers bring your own model options ML models made using Python & R Loading ONNX format models LLMs via Select AI

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 30/12/2024

I'm looking for 3 more friends to get a Strava Family plan together. It will be half the cost per person. 🏃

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 27/12/2024

Merry Christmas all🎄 For those who are still around and might need a quick guide on running SQLcl and connecting to Oracle Autonomous Database - here are my steps with some common errors and their fixes. Bookmark this for later, it might save you some time. ⏳ blog.apexapplab.dev/connecting-t...

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Connecting to Autonomous Database using SQLcl

The exact steps from downloading SQLcl to querying your database

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 23/12/2024

Merry Christmas friends! Keep Building with ❤️ using Oracle APEX!

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 20/12/2024

A must-read about CI/CD in the database and the new Project feature of SQLcl💡 #sqlcl #Project #cicd

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Oracle ACE Program @oracleace.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Check out this nice video featuring the Oracle ACEs to get an overview of all the amazing things our members did this year, from attending conferences to blogging, traveling, learning, networking, and having lots of fun. ♠️ 🎉 🥳 👉 youtu.be/a8wgDhdPW6k #OracleACE

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Oracle ACE Program 2024 Wrap-up

YouTube video by Oracle Developers

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Philipp Hartenfeller @hartenfeller.dev · 12/12/2024

How to debug JavaScript in #orclAPEX like a pro? Half-time in the @united-codes.com advent calendar🎄🎅 youtu.be/f6t8huWG3Rc

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How to Debug JavaScript like a pro | UC Advent Calendar 12

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Dan McGhan @dmcghan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The Quick Start guide for SQLcl Projects was recently overhauled by @martindsouza 😍: docs.oracle.com/en/database/... Use this guide to kick the tires and see how SQLcl Projects can help with CI/CD on your Oracle Database and #orclAPEX apps!

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User's Guide

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Oracle ACE Program @oracleace.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We are happy to share that the Oracle ACE community has reached 500 members from 55 countries! 🎉 It's amazing to work with such a great community of technical experts and community leaders from all around the world! ♠️ See who they are at ace.oracle.com/pls/apex/r/a... #OracleACE

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Oracle ACE Program @oracleace.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

♠️ Reminder for ACEs ♠️ Join us for a Product Overview session from the Oracle Database Tools. Learn more about the new ‘project’ command in SQLcl 24.3, which offers a complete CI/CD solution for Oracle Database, and how it can help developers. #OracleACE

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 06/12/2024

The list ♠️ go.bsky.app/KLkdcRZ

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Scott Spendolini 🍊 @spendolini.blog · 02/12/2024

"The Work" is never just "The Work" Very interesting and too true blog post by Dave Stewart davestewart.co.uk/blog/the-wor...

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The work is never just “the work”

A deep dive on why projects always take longer and a framework to improve future estimation

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Philipp Hartenfeller @hartenfeller.dev · 01/12/2024

For the festive season, we are doing a @united-codes.bsky.social advent calendar with a quick APEX tip video every day. Check out how you can create reusable item utility buttons with #orclAPEX Shortcuts: youtu.be/iaX9R6O37QM

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APEX Shortcuts | UC Advent Calendar 1

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 25/11/2024

Accountability - in between the important stuff - there was some running: 🔸 15 km - Personal Best (PB) - 1h 9min (4:37 min/km pace) 🔸 5 km - Season Best (SB) - 19:48 min (3:57 min/km pace) 🔸 5 km - Southwark Parkrun - 20:56 min (4:11 min/km pace) - 51st place of 549 participants

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 25/11/2024

Accountability Monday: Last week was a happy one for me, as my third child was born during the weekend 🍼 Of course, my wife took the hard part and delivered an action movie style performance to bring him to this world! Respect and my deepest love to her! ❤️

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 15/11/2024

I was lucky enough to get selected to run the London Marathon next year. Slowly increasing my runs' length, duration and pace now. Real prep starts end of January. Socials can be a nice accountability tool. This week: 2 runs so far - Threshold run on Tuesday and Long Zone 2 run on Friday.

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Timo Herwix @therwix.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

At the beginning of the year, I wrote about the new OCI Document Generator and how you can use it in Oracle APEX. Since the end of September, you can also use Excel Templates to create Word and Excel documents. Let's see how it works 🚀 tm-apex.hashnode.dev/oci-document... #OCI #orclAPEX

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OCI Document Generator Update: Excel Template Support and more

Start Generating Dynamic Documents in APEX Easily with OCI Pre-Built Functions

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Plamen Mushkov @apexapplab.dev · 14/11/2024

Okay, first post here 🦋 Need to visualize JSON documents in APEX? Need to collapse and expand the nodes? Visualize it in different colors for better readability? ✅ See how you can do it in just under 5 minutes with my Step-by-step tutorial ⤵️ #orclAPEX From blog.apexapplab.dev

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APEX App Lab - Blog

A blog, built with ❤️ about Oracle APEX, PL/SQL development, front-end, visual arts and new technologies.

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