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 In Oracle APEX, Interactive Reports offer a powerful way to organize and display data. One often-overlooked enhancement is styling column groups and their corresponding columns to improve visual clarity and user experience. This blog guides you through how to color column group headers and their underlying columns using both CSS and JavaScript . Step 1: Assign a Static ID to the Interactive Report Open your APEX page in Page Designer . Select the Interactive Report region. Under the Advanced section, set the Static ID This ID helps us target the report with custom code. Step 2: Identify Column Groups You Want to Style Suppose you want to color these column groups: End Item Info Sales Info To identify them: 1.  Run the page and open the browser’s Developer Tools (Right-click > Inspect) 2. Locate the column group headers and note the attribute data-idx (e.g., data-idx="1" for End Item Info, data-idx="2" for Sales Info). To color only col...

Oracle APEX offers a wide array of powerful features, and one of the most intuitive among them is the Data Workshop. It allows users to load data directly into existing database tables—without writing a single line of code. With just a few clicks, users can upload a file, select the target table, and let APEX handle the rest seamlessly. In this article, I’ll demonstrate how to use Data Workshop to load an Excel file containing 30,000 records into an existing table. The entire process is simple and efficient, with an expected load time of under 2 minutes. Here is the navigation  Go to SQL WORKSHOP--> utilities--> Data Workshop Click on LOAD Data You can upload files into database table using different formats  CSV,XLSX,TXT,JSON,XML  Once you choose the file then next step is to either create table on the flag or choose existing table , i will choose existing table  Click on Existing Table Click on Load data , and import will begin  Once data loaded into th...