Load balancing is a key component in your cloud infrastructure and plays a pivotal role in the digital experience of your users. As the gateway between users and your application, load balancers enable the availability, scalability, and agility that your business needs in today’s digitally transformed world.

In his article, Gopi covered interesting insights of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Flexible Network Load Balancer such as the Pass-through layer 4 (TCP/UDP) load balancing and Scaling network virtual appliances and transparent layer-3 next hop.

Check out the next steps and the capabilities that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers from here.

Chris Saxon

Most applications store a wide variety of text such as names, addresses, and descriptions. When searching on these values, often you want letters in the values to match the search pattern disregarding the case.

In Chris’ latest post, you can gain more information on how to perform both Case-insensitive search and Accent-insensitive search, how to sort rows regardless of the case or accents and how to define search and sorting roles for a column. Chris also explains how to ignore case or diacritics before Oracle Database 12.2 and how to create indexes for fast searches.

Chris’ job is to help you get the best out of the Oracle Database and have fun with SQL. To help you with this he blogs at ALL THINGS SQL. He also creates videos combining SQL and magic on YouTube at THE MAGIC.

Тodd Bottger, а Product Management Director in the Oracle Database team at Oracle Corp, wrote in his latest post more about the new and always free Oracle APEX application development, that will help people and professional developers to rapidly build and deploy low-code apps in Oracle Cloud.

Todd also spoke more about the new always free Oracle Autonomous JSON Database. This is a cloud document database service that makes it simple to develop JSON-centric applications and handle JSON workloads.

Last but not least, Bottger commented on Oracle’s Growing List of Always Free Cloud Services. You can understand more about the Freedom to Build with Oracle APEX applications from here.

In this article, we will present you a compilation of the highlights of Oracle APEX from March 2021 by some technical experts and professionals from the field.

Starting with Carsten Czarski’s article about “Synchronizing Parent-Child REST Sources” with APEX 20.2. Carsten’s posting showed how two REST APIs (which model a parent-child relationship) can be synchronized to two local tables. Some PL/SQL code were required. Declarative APEX features were used to the maximum possible extent.  You can check the whole article of Carsten Czarski from here.

On the other side, Monica Godoy examined the “Top 10 Reasons why Oracle APEX is Ideal for Oracle Forms Developers”. Monica noted that Oracle APEX has a number of similarities to Oracle Forms, in both concept and purpose. Hence, this is why many Oracle Forms developers have learned APEX and are flourishing as APEX developers! You can check the top 10 reasons why Oracle APEX is an ideal development platform for Oracle Forms developers from here.

If you need a detailed explanation of the On-premises APEX installations in Oracle Database 21c you definitely have to read Joel Kallman’s article. Joel is a software development vice president. In his article, he gave recommendations, reasons, explanations, meanings and implications. Go and check the whole article from here.

If you want to know more about MLE and the Future of Server-Side Programming in Oracle APEX listen to this article of Salim Hlayel, a principal product manager. Salim noted that the future of MLE has much more to offer for APEX developers. The inclusion of other server-side languages such as Python and the native loading of external NPM libraries will provide huge advantages to our team.

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