Sign Up for a Hosted APEX Account

How t o S ign U p f or a H osted A PEX A ccount
Oracle Corporation provides free hosted APEX accounts for your trial use. Signing up is an easy process
that will take you less than 2 minutes.
Open your browser and go to http://apex.oracle.com, which is shown in Figure 1-4.
Figure 1-4
Click on the ❑ Sign up for an account link underneath the big red Login button, which will
bring up the first page of the Signup Wizard, shown in Figure 1-5. This page is also your first
view of an APEX application.
Click on Next to move from the Welcome page to begin the process. ❑
Your first step, shown in Figure 1-6, is to identify the person who will be the administrator of ❑
the hosted Oracle APEX account. Enter your name and email address, and click Next.
Oracle Application Express can support multiple workspaces to give you and your organization the ❑
ability to segregate work on different applications. The next page of the Signup Wizard prompts you
for a workspace. Enter a name you can remember, and click Next. If the workspace name you enter
is not unique, you will receive an error message and be prompted to enter the name again.

In the next step, you are prompted for the name of a ❑ schema. Oracle Application Express exists
within an Oracle database. An Oracle schema is a collection of tables and objects — similar to
the concept of a database in Access. Give your schema an appropriate name, the easiest being
the same name as your workspace.
The schema name must not exceed 30 characters, cannot contain spaces or quotation marks, and must
be unique for the hosted version. If you select a schema name that violates any of these restrictions, you
will get an error and be prompted to select another name.
Leave the default initial space allocation of 10MBs. Although an Oracle database can scale to ❑
handle many terabytes of data easily, you will not need that much space for your initial explorations
of APEX. Click Next.
The final step in your signup process is to let the folks at Oracle know why you want to obtain ❑
a hosted APEX account. Enter your reason, which is to work on the exercises in this book, and
click Next.
The final step should be familiar to web users. You are asked to enter a verification code, which ❑
ensures that a human is making the request, rather than an automated program. Match the text
and click Submit Request