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Long-term thought

I was just thinking of whether it would be possible to run various programs on laptop using OracleXE with Sigma tables that could be automaticly linked to be downloaded/updated only when necessary. The advantage would be that we would only need to hook-up with VPN to update/download tables. All work could be done on laptop without any network hookup.

Installed jdeveloper

Today I installer jdeveloper.  So far so good.  I now got jdeveloper installed  and have setup my AUD_TEST database on jdeveloper. wow! I can see the tables i created in XE.  OK… Now I got Oracle XE with the new APEX 301, Sqldeveloper, and now jdeveloper.

Tables created

Last week I created tables in OracleXE/APEX from my excel Mineral spreadsheet.  I’m not sure what columns (I have a hard time not calling them fields) I am going to need.  What are going to be the variables, how to write the script, etc.?  I imported cvs text files to create the tables. I also pulled data and tables from Sigma for PARCEL table using sqlplus spool over the VPN.

APEX practice

This is a good summary of APEX -
What is Application Express? http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/html/what_is_apex.html

With Oracle XE and APEX301 working, the last two days I’m been using the Oracle Database 2 Day + Application Express Developer’s Guide and setting up the sample hr database and APEX application. I learned a lot, but got lost a lot also. I need to decide what workspace and Schema I need to set up for development. How much I use APEX to setup or PLSQL or sqldeveloper.I will return to developing thinking how to convert my excel spreadsheets and logic to use Oracle databases. When I have the databases setup I can begin some APEX. I guess I will begin with a single year and worry about the line adjustment values last, because these need last year’s past values. I’m not sure what I’ll do about past values, query databases or re-cal or store values.

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