Part 1: Export APEX App with workspace and application files in uncoded binary raw data format

Oracle APEX allows you to export applications including all app components as SQL files. This includes application files which binary raw contents are converted into a hexadecimal string representation. This makes it difficult to add, edit or review files from outside an APEX workspace….

PL/SQL: Identify dates of weekdays within time period using NEXT_DAY() function

Today I would like to show an example to demonstrate how you can identify all dates of occurrences of a single weekday within a period of time in PL/SQL by specifying a weekday. For a project, a form mask in APEX was needed on…

Calculation of public holidays via table function in PL/SQL

In this blog post I would like to show how to calculate public holidays in Germany within a period of time using a table function in the Oracle database. The calculation of the dates for the public holidays is made on the basis of…