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## Preface

Oracle APEX is a hosted declarative development environment for developing and deploying database-centric web applications. APEX turns a single Oracle AI Database into a shared service by enabling multiple workgroups to build and access applications as if they were running in separate databases.

Oracle APEX Administration Guide describes how to perform administration tasks for a workspace, application, or an entire development instance.

- Audience
- Related Documents
- Conventions

### Audience

Oracle APEX Administration Guide describes how to perform administration tasks for an APEX workspace, application, or an entire development instance.

To use this guide, you must have a general understanding of relational database concepts and an understanding of the operating system environment under which you are running Oracle APEX.

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### Related Documents

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

- Oracle APEX Documentation Library

- Oracle AI Database Concepts

- Working with SQLcl in Oracle SQLcl User’s Guide

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### Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention | Meaning
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italic | Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
`monospace` | Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.

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