Oracle Exadata Express Cloud is a very nice environment to host your APEX applications in. This presentation covers what it takes to move to this environment.

1. Dimitri Gielis
Moving your APEX app
to the Oracle Exadata
Express Cloud
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dgielis.blogspot.com
@dgielis
dgielis@apexRnD.be

2. Dimitri Gielis
❖ Founder & CEO of APEX R&D
❖ 19+ years of Oracle
Experience (OCP & APEX
Certified)
❖ Oracle ACE Director
❖ “APEX Developer of the year
2009” by Oracle Magazine
❖ “Oracle Developer Choice
award (ORDS)” in 2015
❖ Author Expert Oracle APEX
❖ Presenter at Conferences

3. www.apexofficeprint.comwww.apexRnD.be

4. http://dgielis.blogspot.com @dgielis

5. Back in the days …

12. As a developer,
where do you want to spend
your time?

13. As a company,
where do you want to spend
your time?

15. My (our) force is *
❖ Help business users be more efficient in their job
❖ Building great, scalable and secure Oracle APEX
applications
❖ Streamline our own processes
* developer focussed

16. (Oracle) Cloud

17. Oracle Database Cloud
| Type of Application
Exadata Cloud
Cloud/Machine
(Full DB)
Database Cloud
Managed/Virtual Machine
(Full DB)
Exadata Express
(PDB)
Database Schema
(Schema)
Packaged apps X X
Excel replacement X X
Low Code X X
Departmental App X X X X
Mobile app X X X X
Reporting X X X X
SAAS app X X X
EBS Extension X X ..
Enterprise App X X ..

18. Architecture Exadata Express
BIG-IP
Terminates
HTTPS
IDM
Apache
OHS WLS
ORDS
Pluggable Database (PDB)
with Oracle APEX
Container Database (CDB)
Tenant PDB
Apache
OHS
Apache
OHS
WLS
ORDS
WLS
ORDS
Oracle APEX (HTTPS)
REST (HTTPS)
SQL*Net (different connection) (SSL/TLS)
EXADATA X5-2 Memory
Oracle Database 12.2
Enterprise Edition options
RAC
Grid & ASM
Monitoring via Enterprise Manager
Scheduled RMAN backups

19. https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/database/exadata-express/pricing

20. https://cloud.oracle.com

23. https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/developer-service/features

24. Migrating to Oracle Cloud

25. Migrating data

26. Load mechanism Exadata Cloud
(Cloud/Machine)
Database Cloud
(Managed/Virtual
Machine)
Exadata
Express
Database
Schema
Oracle SQL Developer X X X X
Oracle APEX – SQL Workshop X X X X
ORDS REST Webservices X X X X
Oracle SQL*Plus / SQLcl X X X
Datapump X X
RMAN X X
PDB plugging X X
Remote Cloning X X
SQL Loader X X
Other (Node.js, …) X X X

27. Load mechanism Exadata Cloud
(Cloud/Machine)
Database Cloud
(Managed/Virtual
Machine)
Exadata
Express
Database
Schema
Oracle SQL Developer X X DEMO X
Oracle APEX – SQL Workshop X X X X
ORDS REST Webservices X X X X
Oracle SQL*Plus / SQLcl X X DEMO
Datapump X X
RMAN X X
PDB plugging X X
Remote Cloning X X
SQL Loader X X
Other (Node.js, …) X X X

28. Migrating application

29. Live Demo

30. Useful info

31. Oracle DB 12.2 but …
https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/exadata-express-cloud/csdbk/feature-restrictions-and-limitations.html

32. Oracle DB 12.2 but …
❖ Today
❖ Feature restrictions
❖ e.g. Flashback Data Archive, Spatial, RAS, …
❖ Future
❖ Many limitations will disappear
❖ e.g. RAS will become available

33. Datacenters
❖ Today
❖ US (Chicago)
❖ EU (Amsterdam)
❖ Future
❖ Other

34. Up-time
❖ No failure so far (Oracle cloud SLAs)
❖ Scheduled service downtime: 3rd weekend/month
❖ Downtime: None or a few minutes

35. Backups
❖ Today
❖ RMAN backups by Oracle
❖ Restored via customer SR
❖ Own backup strategy via SQL*Plus / REST
❖ Future
❖ Backup to cloud

36. Oracle APEX Version
❖ Today
❖ APEX 5.0.4 (US)
❖ APEX 5.1.1 (EU)
❖ Future
❖ US upgrade to latest version
❖ Opt-in

37. Printing / Reporting
❖ APEX Office Print supported
❖ Native Oracle APEX Plugin
❖ Create templates in Word, Excel, Powerpoint
(HTML, Markdown coming in AOP 3.0)
❖ Output to DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, HTML, PDF
https://www.apexofficeprint.com

38. Custom URL
❖ Redirect
❖ Forwarding with / (without) Masking
❖ Use of Proxy
❖ Oracle Traffic Director (?)

39. Continuous Deployment
❖ Oracle Developer Cloud Service
❖ https://blogs.oracle.com/shay/entry/automating_devops_for_the_oracle
❖ or all standalone components: Hudson, Jenkins,
Flexdeploy, Git, Subversion, …

40. Oracle Developer Cloud Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhG8HR78MKU

42. Conclusion
❖ Oracle Exadata Express is definitely an option to look at
and for me the first great offer from Oracle especially for
Oracle APEX applications

43. Other people’s views

44. ❖ http://roelhartman.blogspot.nl/search/label/Cloud
Roel
Hartman

45. Q&A
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