Productivity : useful and dark corners of Excel

Everybody knows Excel. The world’s leading spreadsheet application. but do we really use it to do just spread-sheets editing or can we do more with it?

Excel could be used to Automate tasks, to analyze data and go beyond just creating reports.

In this article I try to expose some of the functionalities I mostly use in Excel as developer and production support staff at the same time.

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Oracle : What is APEX ?

APEX is a great Oracle product, yet some-how is under-rated.

Think of APEX for Oracle the same as Access is for Microsoft. It is light-weight-declarative tool to build database applications without much coding.

If you embrace this analogy between APEX and Access, then allow me to introduce APEX by comparing it to ACCESS.

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