Oracle APEX, Oracle Autonomous Database, Always Free Oracle Cloud Services
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The document outlines Oracle's product direction regarding autonomous database technologies and related services as discussed at Oracle World 2019. It highlights demonstrations of Oracle APEX for low-code app development, features of the autonomous database service, and the evolution of APEX since its inception, emphasizing productivity gains through low-code development. Additionally, it includes practical examples of using APEX to create applications with faceted search functionality, showcasing the rapid deployment capabilities of the platform.
Oracle APEX, Oracle Autonomous Database, Always Free Oracle Cloud Services
- 1. APEX on Autonomous Michael Hichwa Oracle Database Server Technologies Tuesday September 17th, 2019 Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
- 2. Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, timing, and pricing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products may change and remains at the sole discretion of Oracle Corporation. Statements in this presentation relating to Oracle’s future plans, expectations, beliefs, intentions and prospects are “forward-looking statements” and are subject to material risks and uncertainties. A detailed discussion of these factors and other risks that affect our business is contained in Oracle’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, including our most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q under the heading “Risk Factors.” These filings are available on the SEC’s website or on Oracle’s website at http://www.oracle.com/investor. All information in this presentation is current as of September 2019 and Oracle undertakes no duty to update any statement in light of new information or future events. Safe Harbor
- 3. Always Free | Oracle APEX Demonstration • Andy Mendelsohn’s keynote “Autonomous Data Management” • Featured a Oracle APEX demo by Database product manager Jenny- Tsai Smith • Included a demonstration of Oracle APEX faceted search and a customer video montage Monday September 16th, 2019 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR3ryxjKN9Q Andy’s keynote was sold out, and the overflow room was sold out, 100’s were turned away
- 4. Always Free | Announced at Oracle World 2019 Larry Ellison at OOW Monday September 16th, 2019 • APEX for low code App Development • SQL Developer Web for DB Development • SQL Notebooks for Machine Learning (Zeppelin Notebooks) • Automatic REST for easy access and publishing of database data (ORDS) • Drivers for all popular programming languages ORDS = Oracle REST Data Services, a no cost feature of the Oracle Database, Oracle APEX (Application Express, also a no cost feature of the Oracle Database. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIgGrDQb2OQ see minute 1:03, Larry covers free and APEX.
- 5. Always Free | Announced at Oracle World 2019
- 6. Always Free | Oracle Cloud https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free September 2019, scroll down to see services
- 7. Always Free | Oracle Cloud https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free Start Here September 2019
- 8. Always Free | Oracle Cloud Follow Wizard to obtain an Oracle Cloud Account September 2019; before you can provision an “always free” autonomous database you need to obtain a cloud account, aka cloud tenancy.
- 9. Oracle Cloud | Sign in https://www.oracle.com If you have a cloud account click here Then click here to sign in September 2019, note signing into oracle.com is different than signing in to cloud, when you sign in to cloud you sign in to your tenancy.
- 10. Oracle Cloud | Landing Page w/ Quick Actions + Status September 2019, note ”Always Free Eligible” boxes clearly identify always free services, quick actions are short cuts to provision common services.
- 11. Oracle Cloud | on Always Free Autonomous Database Click here to expose services September 2019, click to see all services of a specific type, e.g. Autonomous Transaction Processing
- 12. Autonomous Database | Create Database (1 page) September 2019, only serverless is ”always free”, dedicated is not free, Note always free slider. Look and feel expected to move “redwood” theme soon.
- 13. Autonomous Database | Create Database (1 page) Click “Create Autonomous Database” button to provision database September 2019, scrolling down on the page you see this
- 14. Autonomous Database | Provision (~ 3 min) September 2019, note orange color indicates that provisioning is in process. Median time is ~ 3 minutes.
- 15. Autonomous Database | Database Console Note Always Free Indicator, Note Green Color = Service is ready, Note “Service Console” link. ATP = Autonomous Transaction Processing, ADW is used for Data Warehouse “personality”.
- 16. Autonomous Database | Service Console This is what you see for a ”just provisioned” service September 2019, this is what you see immediately after provisioning.
- 17. Autonomous Database | Service Console This is what you see after a day of light use September 2019
- 18. Autonomous Database | Development Console Click here to see Development Services then click “APEX” September 2019, this page shows links useful for developers.
- 19. Oracle APEX | First Time Setup Only displayed if you have no APEX Workspaces September 2019, before you can login to APEX you need a workspace, this welcome screen indicates this.
- 20. Oracle APEX | Create Workspace & Database User • You must create an APEX workspace before using APEX • Each APEX workspace maps one or more database schemas • Services with no APEX workspaces are directed to an “admin” page so you can provision a workspace. September 2019
- 21. Oracle APEX | Sign out of APEX Administration September 2019, sign out of APEX “Admin Console” so you can login to APEX “proper” and start developing.
- 22. Oracle APEX | Sign in to “APEX Workspace” • APEX login page can be accessed directly (e.g. it can be bookmarked) • Or you can navigate the menus from www.oracle.com home page to login September 2019, APEX 19.1, APEX 19.2 is expected later this calendar year
- 23. Oracle APEX | on Always Free Autonomous Database Once logged into APEX it is the same experience as on premises September 2019, as of time of writing you get production APEX 19.1, APEX 19.2 is still a future release.
- 24. Low Code | vs Traditional Coding • “10 times faster than traditional methods” https://go.forrester.com/blogs/why-you-need-to-know-about-low-code-even-if-youre-not-responsible-for-software-delivery/ • “Create, iterate, and release applications in a fraction of the time” https://www.mendix.com/low-code-guide/ • “By 2024, low-code application development will be responsible for more than 65% of application development activity. ” reference: Low-Code Development Technologies Evaluation Guide Published 26 February 2019, Gartner • “…compelling productivity gains for professional and citizen development, as well as speed-of-delivery benefits.” https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3956079/magic-quadrant-for-enterprise-low-code-application-platf
- 25. Low Code | vs Traditional Coding • Faster to design and develop Reduces Application Backlog • Faster to iterate enhancements Delivers more value to users • Non professional developers can contribute Broadens resource pool • Abstracts complexity (JavaScript, CSS…) Greater consistency Oracle APEX is 10x more productive Note APEX claim of 10X more productivity vs traditional coding is nothing crazy and is the norm for “low code” platforms for the past 30 years (IMHO).
- 26. Low Code | vs Traditional Coding Traditional CodingLow Code High ControlHigh Productivity Low code tools trade control for productivity; how much control you seed varies by framework; most use both low code + high control based on use case. Low code projects typically have smaller teams 4 or fewer, high control frequently have larger teams and projects that have longer development timelines.
- 27. Oracle APEX | Primary Use Cases • Opportunistic Apps / Point Solutions / LOB • SaaS / EBS Extensions • Oracle Forms Modernization • AppDev as a Service • External Data Sharing • Datamart Reporting • Spreadsheet Replacement • Enterprise Applications APEX use cases based on APEX history. Most APEX development projects have short time horizons weeks, months. Low code APEX teams are small, 4 or less on average, some are much larger, some are 1 person. The APEX use cases are also typical low code use cases. APEX is unique in its seamless support for SQL.
- 28. RAD Stack | Oracle APEX Architecture JDBChttps REST Data Services APEX Database R A D APEX framework (RAD stack) uses a mid tier (ORDS) but no logic, just static files including Oracle JET, all App and business logic is in meta data in DB tier.
- 29. RAD Stack | Oracle APEX Architecture REST Data Services APEX Database R A D Comment: Oracle APEX development team codes lots of lots of JavaSceript so our Low Code customer developers don’t have to. The APEX ”SQL” is meta data scripts used install APEX.
- 30. RAD Stack | Oracle APEX Architecture • REST (Oracle REST Data Services) • No cost, supported with database • Swagger / Pagination / Jersey / Oracle Standard • Tomcat / Embedded Jetty / WLS • APEX • Model driven execution engine, not code generation • Installed within the Oracle Database • Provides “Zero latency data access” • Database • Local data access via SQL, remote access via REST • Built in analytics, text, spatial, and graph capabilities • + In Memory, RAC, Data Guard, Flashback, PL/SQL
- 31. Oracle APEX | Create Faceted Search on Existing Table • Click “SQL Workshop” • Click “Object Browser” • Click “ORDERS” table • Click “Create App” • Click “Create Application” • Click “Run Application” • Enter Login Credentials and click “login” • Click “Orders Search” card to get to faceted search page 4 clicks 5 clicks 12 Clicks, 0 characters of text entered, automatically joined, creates 26 APEX pages, about 15 seconds (APEX 19.2) THEN
- 32. Oracle APEX | Create Faceted Search on Spreadsheet • Click “Application Builder” icon • Click “Create” icon • Click “From a File” card • Drag and drop your spreadsheet into drop zone • Enter table name and hit tab key • Click “Load Data” button • Click “Create Application” button • Click ”Run Application” icon • Click “Sign In” and “…Search” 11 clicks 12 Clicks, 14 characters of text entered, creates 1 table and 26 APEX pages, about 30 seconds (APEX 19.2)
- 33. Oracle APEX | Faceted Search • New Feature with APEX 19.2 • Provides declarative faceted search • Recommends facets based on data distribution • Foreign keys (star queries) supported • Numeric columns auto compute ranges • Facet counts automatically computed APEX 19.2 early access evaluation service is hosted on https://tryapexnow.com, once APEX 19.2 goes GA the eval site will be shut down.
- 34. Oracle APEX | Faceted Search Architecture • Faceted search transparently leverages the GROUPING SETS clause (SQL99 standard) • GROUPING SETS allows counts to be computed for several columns with one SQL query • APEX uses client side JavaScript (fully transparent to the developer) to display the facets and counts • You supply a table, SQL query or REST service the addition of the grouping set logic is automatic
- 35. Oracle APEX | 19.2 Faceted Search & Auto Discovery • Rows in the table Combined with distinct values gives cardinality • Distinct values in each column Fewer numbers of distinct values are typically better facets • Average column data length Shorter column text typically makes better facets • Number of column null values Fewer null values typically makes facets more relevant • Numeric Data Distribution Numeric “buckets” calculated on actual data distribution • Column is based on a foreign key Foreign keys are typically important information • Existence of an Index on the columns Assumption is that indexed columns are more important • Used to narrow down lots of data to find the data your looking for • Create from (1) create app wizard, (2) create page wizard, (3) from SQL workshop or (4) in page designer • Facets are first class APEX components and have a robust set of declarative attributes Auto Discovery Scoring algorithm Considers: The goal for faceted search is to provide the developer with best possible defaults, this enhances productivity. Don’t like the system generated defaults, no problem, customize away.
- 36. Oracle APEX | History 1.5 HTML DB 1.5 - First Release 1.6 – Themes Hosted free service apex.oracle.com 3.0 Flash Charts PDF Printing Access Migration Tabular Forms 4.0 Websheets Plug-Ins Dynamic Actions Team Development 2.x SQL Workshop Oracle XE Dictionary Views Page Designer (PD) Universal Theme Modal Dialogs 5.0 Data Upload Error Handling ROWID 4.1 Oracle Forms to APEX Conversion 3.2 Mobile with jQuery HTML 5 Packaged Productivity Apps 4.2 Interactive Reports (IR)3.1 Interactive Grid Oracle JET Charts Simplified Wizards Live Template Options 5.1 Schema Service Exadata Express Cloud Service Customer Managed Database Cloud Service 19.1 REST-enabled Forms New Data Load JET 6.1 + New Charts Builder Dark Mode Autonomous Database Cloud 18.2 Reduced Downtime Upgrades Font APEX 1000+ 32x32 icons Create Page Dashboard Wizard 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 18.1 REST & Remote SQL New Create App Wizard Oracle JET 4.2 New REST Workshop 19.2 Faceted Search Enhanced Popup LOV Issues Management REST Enabled IG App Dark Mode JET 7.2 20.1 Friendly URLs Auto Backup / Reco Meta Menus G2 Productivity Apps Enhanced Printing Redwood UX JET 8.1 2021 Oracle APEX, first released as “HTMLDB”, renamed to Application Express (APEX) in 2008, has had a long unbroken history of low code browser based innovation.
- 37. Oracle APEX | History 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 1.5 1.6 2.0 2.1 2.2 3.0 3.1 5.1 5.04.24.0 3.2 4.1 18.1 18.2 19.1 19.2 19 Releases 200+ Major features introduced 0 required rewrites Oracle APEX takes pride in delivering regular updates and preserving upgradability since the first release. A key benefit of low code is for the platform to evolve without app rewrites.
- 38. APEX Innovations … Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. Application Features and Blueprints Application Blueprints SQL Workshop Universal Theme Faceted Search Quick SQL Sophisticated LOVs Application Blueprints RESTful Workshop Autonomous Database Page Designer JET Charts Interactive Reports Application Continuity Productivity Applications Master Detail Forms Application Advisor RESTful Web Services Interactive Grids Dark mode Built-in AOP integration Drag and drop data loading Email Templates Always Free Service Calendars Excel Download