First Oracle Application Express Workshop in Singapore

On Monday, 27th April 2009, Oracle Corporation Singapore organized the first ever Oracle Application Express workshop at its office in Singapore. DBCON assisted Oracle in organizing this workshop.

Despite the fact that Oracle Application Express is not yet popular in this part of the world, the response and the turnout in this workshop was very impressive. Out of a total of 49 people who signed up for the workshop, 29 participants turned up. And that too when the workshop was organized on a weekday (Monday) and after office hours (6:30 - 9:30 PM).

Pizzas, sandwiches, tea & coffee set the right environment to start the workshop after day's work at office.

Blair Layton from Oracle started with 45 minutes presentation on Oracle Application Express in which he introduced Oracle Application Express, discussed the architecture and covered some of the security aspects. Blair also demonstrated how to create an application in Oracle APEX directly from a spreadsheet - without writing even a single line of code.

This was followed by the two hands-on lab exercises from OBE (Oracle By Example) series so that participants could have a feel of creating applications in Oracle Application Express. In about an hour and a half, most of the participants had their first APEX application up and running. An impressive feat considering the fact that before the start of the workshop most of the participants had no idea about Oracle Application Express.

Also for the very first time, the lab environment that was given to the participants was setup on Amazon AWS cloud. Oracle Application Express with Amazon AWS cloud is a deadly combination as you can have your application up and running literally in just a couple of hours which includes setting up hardware, operating system, database & creating a fully functional application.

The workshop ended with a quiz round where participants were asked questions from the workshop and got a chance to win T-shirts.

Oracle Application Express - Easy to develop, easy to deploy, easy to manage.

With Oracle APEX focus on what needs to be done, not how it should be done !