Oracle Application Express is a hosted declarative development environment for developing and deploying database-centric Web applications. Oracle Application Express turns a single Oracle database into a shared service by enabling multiple workgroups to build and access applications as if they were running in separate databases.
Oracle Application Express Application Administration Guide describes how to perform administration tasks for an Oracle Application Express workspace, application, or an entire development instance.
This preface contains these topics:
This document contains the following chapters:
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Workspace and Application Administration | Describes how to perform Workspace administration tasks and access many of these reports. |
| Oracle Application Express Hosted Instance Administration | Describes tasks an Oracle Application Express administrator performs when administering an Oracle Application Express hosted instance. |
Oracle Application Express Administration Guide is intended for application developers who are building database-centric Web applications using Oracle Application Express. The guide describes how to use the Oracle Application Express development environment to build, debug, manage, and deploy applications.
To use this guide, you must have a general understanding of relational database concepts and an understanding of the operating system environment under which you are running Oracle Application Express.
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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/apex/overview/index.html
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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html
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