Oracle sql.ppt

3 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. The following is intended to outline Oracle’s general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

6 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) Benefits Runs within Database Self Service Provisioning Leverage SQL Skills Rapid Browser Based Development Point your browser and start developing Build reports and charts using SQL Out-of-the-box elastic private cloud service Simple to manage, highly scalable

7 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) Architectural Overview • Simple 2-Tier Architecture • Pages dynamically rendered using database Meta data • No code generation or file based compilation • Runs everywhere Oracle Database runs

8 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) Fully supported no-cost feature of Oracle DB • Distributed with – Oracle Enterprise Edition – Oracle Standard Edition – Oracle Standard Edition One – Oracle XE • Supported Database Releases – 10gR2 – 11gR1 – 11gR2

9 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) History HTML DB 1.5 [2004] •First Release HTML DB 1.6 [2004] •Themes HTML DB 2.0 [2005] •SQL Workshop Application Express 2.1 [2006] •Oracle XE Application Express 2.2 [2006] •Packaged Applications Application Express 3.0 [2007] •Flash Charts, PDF Printing, Access Migration Application Express 3.1 [2008] •Interactive Reports Application Express 3.2 [2009] •Oracle Forms Conversion Application Express 4.0 [2010] •Websheets, Dynamic Actions, Plug-Ins, Team Development Application Express 4.1 [2011] •Data Upload, Error Handling, ROWID

11 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Error Handling  Error Handling Function  Provide developers full control when an error occurs  Capabilities include:  Log all errors  Map errors raised by the Oracle Database (like “Unique constraint XYZ violated”) to friendlier error messages  Display all errors “Inline in Notification”  Increase security by masking internal APEX errors

12 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Use of ROWID  Allow usage of ROWID for Automatic DML Processing  Tables with > 2 Primary Key(PK) columns supported  Support for PK columns that are also a Foreign Key  Alternative to identification of Primary Key columns  Ability to create Form, Form & Report or Tabular Form on Table or View with no Primary Key

13 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Data Upload • Provide the ability for end-users to update spreadsheet data into tables  Developer uses wizard to specify parameters Following pages created:  Data Load Source  Data / Table Mapping  Data Validation  Data Load Results

14 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Calendar • Added “Drag and Drop” functionality  Change Date and Time of records • Added ability to create “Edit” page as part of calendar wizard  “Edit” Page types of:  Existing page  Pop-up page  New page

15 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Websheet Enhancements Improved User Interface – offers greater control New Page Section Type – PL/SQL Query using Datagrid Presentation mode

16 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Tabular Form Validations and Processes Support all the same validation types as a Page Item (e.g. PL/SQL Expression, Exists, etc) Allow referencing of column values in Validations and Processes using Bind Variable syntax:  :COLUMN_NAME  Built-in Bind variables - APEX$ROW_SELECTOR, APEX$ROW_NUM and APEX$ROW_STATUS Validations & Processes can be fired for each submitted row or once for the entire submission Advisor has been enhanced to check for valid Tabular Form columns

17 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Plug-In Enhancements Increased Number of Custom Attributes to 15 New Attribute Type - ‘Checkboxes’ Add plug-in Support for  Authentication Schemes  Authorization Schemes Attribute Usability Enhancements in Application Builder

18 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Dynamic Action Enahncements Declarative support for buttons to trigger dynamic actions  Actions performed based on button clicks  Works for HTML, Image and Template based buttons Extend the Submit Page dynamic action to gray out the page and show a processing icon Improve the ability to define multiple item values within ‘Set Value’

19 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Accessibility Improved Menu accessibility Added ability to define row headers for tabular form fields Added “High Contrast” mode Improved usability for screen reader users when dealing with validation errors Integrated updated version of Rich Text Editor, offering improved accessibility

20 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Application Translations Modernized the Translation user interface Streamlined the translation process Minimize the translation requirements for repeated values

21 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Dynamic List Base list on SQL or PL/SQL functions  Dynamically create styled list items Especially important for mobile based applications

22 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Mobile Applications • Provide themes & HTML templates suitable for smart phones and mobile devices  jQuery Mobile* Dynamic List Support Improved HTML out of the box * We plan to bundle jQuery Mobile into a future release of Application Express

23 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Other New Features in 4.1 • Many Functional & Performance Improvements • New AnyChart Flash Charts • New CKEditor version • New jQuery and jQuery UI versions

25 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Beyond Oracle APEX 4.1… Proposed Future Release Features  Enhanced themes and HTML templates to enable developers to declaratively create mobile applications and/or mobile pages.  Incorporate HTML 5 charting capabilities.  Declarative specification of RESTful Web services mapped to SQL and PL/SQL.  Modal Dialogues  Multiple Tabular Forms on one page  Master-Detail-Detail support  Multiple Interactive Reports on one page

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