APEX5 Early Adopter 3 is nigh

I get this email that tells me apexea.oracle.com is about to be fitted out with an even slicker APEX5 Early Adopter 3.

It's coming soon to a browser near you

Stay tuned...

Update 2014-01-29 - I received an e-mail yesterday (along with 6k+ others) saying that EA3 will be available tomorrow and February will be an awesome month for playing with APEX5.

Oracle 12c column upgrades

While playing with 12c I tried the upgrade to the DEFAULT column syntax that now allows sequences.

I came across a basic error, but it's just a small trap for new players.

CREATE TABLE seq_test(a NUMBER)
/

ALTER TABLE seq_test MODIFY (a NUMBER DEFAULT sage_seq.NEXTVAL)
/

SQL Error: ORA-02262: ORA-2289 occurs while type-checking column default value expression

*Cause:    New column datatype causes type-checking error for existing column
           default value expression.
*Action:   Remove the default value expression or don't alter the column
           datatype.

Investigating ORA-02262 returns next to nothing. It's a red herring anyway because I didn't realise the ORA-2289 staring me in the face before I checked if my database had that sequence yet.
ORA-02289: sequence does not exist

Typical APEX table definitions will never be the same again, though an even more elegant solution is to use IDENTITY columns. See the performance benefits at oracle-base.com.

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