Introduction of Oracle Apex

APEX stands for Application Express product of oracle. It's a low-coded web-based application framework with an oracle database. It has multiple working sources such as an object browser to interact with database or database objects, and SQL workshop tools that will help you to execute and test any SQL command and develop various types of web-based applications. without knowing vast knowledge of web programming HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc you can create an enterprise application. APEX  automatically handles the intricacies of database interaction. we can easily make a secure application with a nice interface, you can change the user interface without any complexity as the user demand.

Required Background for Learning Oracle Apex Development

Pre-requisition of Oracle Apex learning is SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Though all are not equally important for development, some are more important and some less.

SQL: For working in any oracle environment you must need to know SQL queries. As Apex is an oracle framework, All data access in APEX is performed via SQL statements, and the value of many properties involves SQL in some way. To make forms & reports on oracle apex SQL is the basic need. 

PL/SQL: PL/SQL is Oracle’s programming language, use to specify the behavior of Oracle Apex. as this is oracle base framework, must need knowledge of PL/SQL at basic, and advanced levels will get extra benefits for customizing and handling any kind of work. In many tutorials, I will use PL/SQL.

HTML|CSS|Javascript: As APEX is a web-based application so HTML, CSS, and Javascript are the base of the framework, though are not mandatory because they are built-in functionality on oracle apex. Still, to change your application like yourself, sometimes you need these web languages if you want to skip you can do this.

Consultation: Overall it can be said that for customizing your own way the extra feature will add extra benefit to your development. Expertise in this chapter will make it easy to do any complex work on apex.