Oracle Magazine, July/August 2019
PEER TO PEER BY BLAIR CAMPBELL Problem Solvers Peers hack family reunions decide databases arent evil and use cloud as an accelerator ORACLE MAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2019 23 Company URL Managing Technology AG Job title Business unit manager Length of time using Oracle products 18 years What interesting challenge have you solved with Oracle solutions My wifes family has a reunion every three years and it always gave me a headache to try to understand the relationships of the relatives So I obtained a 200 page Word document containing all information about the family in an unstructured way Of course this was a perfect fit for Oracle Application Express Oracle APEX so I built a web app in four hours using the hosted Oracle APEX environment on apex oracle com and started to manually enter the data of relatives who lived up to 350 years ago The result is a nice graphical representation you can test it out yourself here How are you using social media in your work these days The social apps I use most are Twitter Slack and WhatsApp The hashtag orclapex on Twitter is especially great as many Oracle APEX developers are actively using it in their tweets Whats your go to Oracle reference book Jurgen Siebens great book about Oracle APEX Oracle APEX Das umfassende Handbuch für Entwickler Rheinwerk Computing 2017 but its available only in German In addition to books I always go through all the slides from Oracle APEX conferences to keep myself up to date It also helps that all content from the German Oracle user group DOAG can be downloaded freely Niels de Bruijn Ratingen Germany
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