Oracle APEX 24: How to Adjust Auto-Refresh Intervals

Building on the previous auto-refresh report example, this post shows how to let users change the interval when a report will be automatically refreshed. Prerequisites The example shown was built using Apex version 24.1.3. Goal This chart should automatically refresh every X seconds dependent on the value of the Refresh Interval Select List. Step 1 […]

Oracle Apex 24: Automatically Refreshing a Report

In this post I will show you how to automatically refresh a report every 10 seconds. The existing examples of solving this problem I found on the web did not work with Apex 24.1.3 and it wasn’t until I stumbled across this thread that I found that examples I have been trying used the apexrefresh […]

The lasting lesson from Designing Data-Intensive Applications

I know I’m joining the conversation late, but I have just finished Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann and thoroughly enjoyed it. There are many discussions of this book and this YouTube interview from 2023 with the author, is a good place to start. In this post, I am going to talk about the final […]

Connecting to PostgreSQL from Visual Studio Code

In this post I demonstrate how to create a new connection to a locally running PostgreSQL database using the PostgreSQL. VS Code extension from Microsoft. For this example the following versions were used: VS Code 1.88.1, PostgreSQL VS Code Extension 0.3.0 PostgreSQL 16 Database running locally, pgAdmin 4 Version 8.2. After installing the extension, open […]