Oracle Apex Install

Cool and straightforward tutotrial to use when installing apex installation.

There is a better version of this technology nowadays and will appear in Oracle 11g I hear. It is called PL/SQL Gateway. It is like everything you need to build and host a web application will be in Oracle! Very nice, I like the idea, so is it bye bye application servers , bye bye web servers? Hello mighty Oracle! Well it seems like the future where we will be able to write that valuable piece of SQL code under an umbrella on a beach somewhere in Barcelona is near.

Oracle 11g comes with Apex preinstalled when you install it, so you want have to do this.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/obe10gdb/install/htmldbinst/htmldbinst.htm


Home made (DIY) quick installation:

1. Download apex.

2. Unzip apex in your chosen directory

3. Switch to apex directory after unzip.

4. From the apex directory, start SQL*Plus and connect the database as SYSDBA.

$ \apex\sqlplus sys/SYS_password as sysdba

5. Run

SQL>@apexins password tablespace_apex tablespace_files tablespace_temp images

Where:

password: is the password you choose for the apex admin account / owner
tablespace_apex: the name of the tablespace for the Apex user.
tablespace_files: the name of the tablespace for the Apex Files user.
tablespace_temp: the name of the temporary tablespace
images: virtual directory for the images on the webserver kind of thing, define it to be /i/
This is how I run it, after creating a tablespace APEX.

SQL>@apexins kubilay APEX APEX TEMP /i/

If for some reason you fail you can remove it like this and try again

$ \apex\sqlplus sys/SYS_password as sysdba

Execute the following commands
SQL> drop user FLOWS_030000 CASCADE;

SQL> drop user FLOWS_FILES cascade;

Visit my Oracle Apex mock applications

Get DDL with dbms_metadata

Did you ever wanted to get the Data Definition Language of an object in Oracle from SQL*Plus.


There is package called DBMS_METADATA which you can use and it gives you exactly that. Use the package to get the DDL in SQL*Plus by passing as first parameter the object type (i.e. TABLE, INDEX…) and second parameter the object name.

SQL> set long 50000

SQL> select dbms_metadata.get_ddl( 'TABLE', 'MY_TABLE' ) from dual;

Monitor Dynamic SGA components

Use this SQL script when logged in as SYSDBA to see what happens to the SGA components over time, how they grow and shrink

I found it very useful monitoring the SHARED_POOL usage over time.

SELECT COMPONENT ' - ' OPER_TYPE COMPONENT_STATUS,INITIAL_SIZE,TARGET_SIZE,FINAL_SIZE,STATUS,TO_CHAR(START_TIME, ‘dd-mon-yyyy hh24:mi’) START_TIME,END_TIMEFROM V$SGA_RESIZE_OPSORDER BY END_TIME;

SPFILE or PFILE startup

I have found this very useful SQL to identify what type of initialization parameter file an oracle instance has started with.



Found this on Thomas Kyte’s site at http://asktom.oracle.com most useful information as ever!

Run the following as SYSDBA.

SELECT DECODE(COUNT(*), 1, 'spfile', 'pfile')
FROM V$SPPARAMETER
WHERE ROWNUM = 1
AND ISSPECIFIED = ‘TRUE’

Install Oracle 10g R2 on Ubuntu (Breezy Badger and Dapper Drake)

I have found http://www.dizwel.com website very helpful when I was trying to install Oracle 10g R2 on Ubuntu.

The instructions are clear end well tested.I have used it couple of time to install Oracle on Ubuntu.

I strongly recommend it.Step by step installation guide of Oracle 10g R2 on Ubuntu (Breezy Badger and Dapper Drake)

Great website :http://www.dizwell.com/prod/node/52?page=0%2C0