At CloudWorld 2022, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Application Platform for partners and customers. The platforms allows developers to create extensions and applications that connect to Oracle SaaS, with the same tools and resources used by Oracle to develop the apps. In this session we’ll show you how the combination of Oracle Visual Builder Studio and the Redwood templates, patterns and components can help you create extensions around Oracle Fusion Apps ecosystem.
SQL Dialog adds a conversational layer on top a database!
SQL-Dialogs allows users to speak to their databases in natural language to build Enterprise Chatbots. Oracle Digital Assistant’s new SQL Dialog, allow us to translate a user’s natural language into SQL queries, to fetch data from a database directly to the user.
SQL Dialog adds a quick conversational layer on top of DB-based applications without having to create individual intents for each query.
Speakers: Daniel Teixeira & Jürgen Kress
Schedule: January 31st 2023 16:30-17:30 CET (Berlin time)
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If you’ve browsed Oracle APEX’s features you must have seen the Quick SQL in the SQL Workshop. But have you ever used it? Do you know the shortcut? If not, have a look at this post to understand better this amazing tool.
According to the Oracle Documentation
Quickly develop a script for simple tables and views.
Quick SQL provides a quick way to generate the SQL required to create a relational data model from an indented text document.
Quick SQL is designed to reduce the time and effort required to create SQL tables, triggers, and index structures. This tool is not designed to be a replacement for data modeling. Instead, Quick SQL is simply a quick way to develop a script for simple tables and views. Once you have generate the SQL, you can then tweak and expand it.
From this quote, you can see that it is not design to replace traditional SQL Development, it is just a tool to help speed up the development of simple routines that sometimes take longer than they should.
If you have Oracle APEX, you can open it in SQL Workshop -> Utilities -> Quick SQL
If you don’t have it, then you should go get it, it’s free 🙂 . But if you really in a hurry, then try https://apex.oracle.com/quicksql
As you’ll see, quick SQL is easy to use, you just add some text, indentation and shorthands for stuff you want. Take a look at the example below
On the left side is what I’ve wrote and on the right side is the actual script being generated. Can you see from this simple example how much writing quick sql did for me? I’ve only wrote the table name, indented to write the columns with some shorthands for things like data types and not null. And when I wrote “date_of_birth” i didn’t have to write anything. And the Primary key came as a bonus.
By pressing Enter or “Generate SQL” it keeps updating the right side, so I knew what was happening all the time.
Ok, that may have been a bit too easy, let’s add
This simple addition made it difficult to fit the right side content, so I’m adding it bellow
Where can I learn more?The good news is that Oracle provides a lot of content to study.
The bad news is that, as far as i know, only Oracle has content about it
Quick SQL Documentation: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/application-express/20.2//aeutl/using-quick-sql.html#GUID-21EE36C2-F814-48C0-90EA-7D464E9014FD
Shorthands and Datatype: I don’t have a link for that, I have a path. with Quick SQL opened, click on help and you’ll get all the datatypes, table and column directives that you can use (check image below)
One final tipTake a look at the sample files, you won’t believe how much you’ll learn from them.
That’s it, good studies and good luck
Most people don’t know, but Oracle APEX List of Values (LoV) are very flexible components with that allows us to perform a series of actions using a centralized and reusable data source.
In this post, I’ll be briefly talking about some of the amazing functionalities this tool provides us.
After creating the LoV you can scroll down to Additional Columns and add all columns available in your original select. This columns will become available Popup LoV when the user clicks on it to find an item.
The nice thing about this feature is that you can toggle if the column is visible, searchable and even add a format mask.
And don’t worry, if you use the same LoV for Select Lists items, it will still get its configuration from the Display / Return Value fields.
If you have one or just a few Apps in you workspace, you probably never did a subscription. But this is a great way to have a “Master List App” that all other apps listen to get updates.
The interesting thing to note is that the subscription needs to be refreshed by the Publisher or Subscriber, it doesn’t happen automatically. For this reason it allows you test it before letting the code propagate to other applications.
For those who know JavaScript, you can modify the initialization object and return it with a new configuration.
Although Oracle APEX has dropped jQuery UI, it still uses the same OPTIONS object that you can learn more about in here https://api.jqueryui.com/dialog/
Going back to my first tip when I mentioned multiple columns, in addition to that, you can set the value of multiple page items by using said columns. The interface here is a bit too compact, but from the example you can see the pattern. Column name : page item, another column : another page item.
As you can see, the List of Value and Popup LoV are 2 powerful features that allow us to quickly develop without gaving to worry too much about standard list components (and some not so standard as well). I could probably write much more on the subject, but that will probably stay for another post 😉
In this 6 part series we will focus on the end-to-end best practices, to guide you on what constitutes a great conversational experience. “Why are Entities so important?” will be the topic for the 3rd session. Here we will explore real life challenges for entity extraction and how to leverage the platform features to solve them.
Learn why are Entities so important:
· Challenges of real life entity extraction
· Entity best practices with platform features
· Always use composite bags
· When to use Event Handlers
In this session, we will cover the latest updates and demos from the Process Automation Service. We will introduce the new cloud native version of our service. Process Automation is a platform for custom build process application or to customize Oracle SaaS services like HCM and CX. Join us to see a product demonstration covering both use cases for digital transformation and to adapt SaaS process.
Digital Assistant is an AI service that offers prebuilt skills and templates to create conversational experiences for your business applications and customers through text, chat, and voice interfaces. Application owners can easily get started with prebuilt skills to provide chatbot functionality to business users. Discover partner opportunities for SaaS services like HCM Cloud, Sales, Expense, Public Sector, Logistics, Project Management, PeopleSoft, B2C Service, Field Service, EPM, Recruiting, Care Experience, Siebel that include a Digital Assistant. For more information please see the Oracle Skills Documentation.
Speakers: Joe Huang & Jürgen Kress
Schedule: June 28th 2022 16:30-17:30 CET (Berlin time)
For details please visit the registration page.
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