Foreword

I consider myself a pragmatic person—one who uses the right tools for a job and employs the most straightforward and easy way to accomplish a task. To that end, I've been a great supporter and fan of Oracle's Application Express (APEX) from before the day it was introduced. I say "before the day" because I've had the honor and pleasure of using APEX long before it was released to the public at large. My web site, http://asktom.oracle.com/, is one of the first ever built with the software that was to become known as APEX.

APEX is one of the most pragmatic database development tools I know of. It does one thing and one thing well: it rapidly implements fully functional database applications—applications that are used to predominantly ...

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