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Oracle SQLcl is the command line tool to connect to an Oracle database. One neat feature it has is the ability to call host commands (i.e call terminal commands directly from SQLcl). You can use any of the following to trigger a host command: host ho...
How to use Text Messages for Constants
Last week SQL Developer for VS Code was released (direct link to VS Code extension here). If you're not using VS Code (VSC) I highly suggest you download and install as it's the de facto editor for developers (regardless of programming language). I'v...
I recently had to generate a sitemap.xml for an public facing APEX application. The official sitemap protocol has the following example: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"> <url> ...
Every APEX page item has a Server Side condition which controls whether the item is rendered on the page. They're various server side condition options and for the purpose of this article we'll just set it to Never (can do things like queries that re...
When you have an apostrophe (') in your last name you soon realize that a lot of sites don't handle them properly when entering your information. Normally I get a simple error or my last name will be converted to "D" or "Souza". Today I tried to register for a demo for a fairly popular application and received the following error message:
The error message says "Last Name contains errors". Someone clearly didn't do their job when creating this registration form. Besides the fact that I couldn't register with my last name, stating that my last name "contains errors" doesn't really make sense.
I know this post isn't specific to APEX but this is just a reminder when defining validations to use meaningful error messages.