Snippets and Thoughts of One Oracle Developer

I I have dedicated June to finally clear some business analyst certifications I wanted to do for a year. Why BA? Well, being a good business analyst will help me (and you) to become a better developer and also product owner, since both professions heavily rely on BA skills. And yet not many developers nor product owners pursue them. I searched for the top BA certifications and I found IIBA . This Canadian non profit company is on the very top and I like their offerings. I don't want to spend time and money on studying something dubious from someone nobody knows or acknowledge. You can't make a mistake when choosing IIBA. I think these 3 paths are great for both developers and product owners: Agile Analysis Certification (IIBA®-AAC)   Certificate in Product Ownership Analysis (IIBA®-CPOA) Certification in Business Data Analytics (IIBA®- CBDA) I have passed both AAC and CPOA exams and they were not easy. I will do CBDA certification later and I will probably add the ECBA to th

I I was giving a presentation to a manager deciding the path for his projects. For me Oracle database and APEX is the obvious choice. I really can't recommend anything else. You can read a lot about both on the official pages, specially on features , new features  and why to chose APEX . But coming from other databases and programming languages I have to highlight following points. Focus on solving business issues First of all, APEX is a true low code platform. Less code means less time , which means less complexity (and less bugs , less technical debt ), which translates to less cost . It is secure and responsible out of the box. You can build apps very fast, not just the prototypes, but the full apps. Not in months, but in weeks if not days. I always suggest to my clients to use the native APEX components as they are if they can. This way, you safe even more time and the outputs across applications will be consistent. The more time your developers save on mundane jobs, the mor

Y Yup, you can get free certification  Oracle Cloud Data Management 2022 Foundations Associate (1z0-1105-22), probably with just the brown badge (update: it is blue) and it will expire in 18 months, but it is an opportunity to learn something new and validate it for free. Study materials are available on OLS, under  Become an Oracle Cloud Data Management Foundations Associate , they are 6 hours long. This learning path gives you the insight not only to Oracle's data management strategies but a complete solution for modern application development and data transformations. Learn how Oracle's cloud data platform extends and complements its core databases. Understand how to architect data management platforms that work together to simplify and maximize productivity, while reducing cost and improving performance, reliability, and security. Exam topics: Data Management Introduction Explain Oracle's Data Management Strategy Discuss the different Oracle database offerings and depl

W We have a new cloud exam available: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Science 2022 Professional (1z0-1110-22). The 2021 ML certification is retiring in August and this is probably the replacement. Update: the official article here . These are the exam topics: Configure your tenancy for OCI Data Science Discuss OCI Data Science Overview & Concepts Discuss Accelerated Data Science (ADS) SDK Capabilities Configure your tenancy for Data Science Design and Set up OCI Data Science Workspace Create and manage Projects and Notebook sessions Create and manage Conda environments Store credentials via OCI Vault Configure and manage source code in Code Repositories (Git) Implement end-to-end Machine Learning Lifecycle Discuss ML Lifecycle Overview Access data from different sources Explore and Prepare data Visualize and Profile data Create and train models using OCI and Open source Libraries Create and Use automated ML capability from Oracle AutoML Evaluate models Obtain Global & Local

O On rare cases I want to process selected rows in grid even if they were not changed. And I want to process them through standard grid handler, not via customized AJAX callback. Just like you would changed the rows and pressed Save. I would like to add a button Save Selected to the grid after the Save button. But not to all grids. To achieve this you can use CSS classes on the grid. In JavaScript I will check if grid has the SAVE_SELECTED class and only then I will add the button. No need to hardcode static id. Lets create a table first and a simple trigger just for demo purposes too verify that selected rows were actually changed: CREATE TABLE settings2 ( setting_name VARCHAR2(30) CONSTRAINT nn_settings2_id NOT NULL, setting_value VARCHAR2(256), -- is_numeric CHAR(1), is_date CHAR(1), -- updated_by VARCHAR2(30), updated_at DATE, -- CONSTRAINT pk_settings2 PRIMARY KEY (sett

I I would like to notify users visually that they have some unsaved changes in grid. When page loads user will see a grid with normal Save button. Then he make some changes and immediately Save button becomes Hot (green in my case) which signals to him that there are some unsaved changes. I do it via JavaScript mutation observer feature, I am waiting for Edit button CSS style change. When this happens, I will change Save button class to hot. Just run the following code when page is loaded. var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) { mutations.forEach(function(mutation) { var $target = $(mutation.target); if ($target.hasClass('is-active')) { var $save = $target.parent().parent().find('button.a-Button.a-Toolbar-item.js-actionButton[data-action="save"]'); $save.addClass('is-active'); //observer.disconnect(); // remove observer when fired