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## Preface

Oracle APEX App Builder User’s Guide describes how to use the Oracle APEX development environment to build and deploy database-centric web applications. Oracle APEX turns a single Oracle database into a shared service by enabling multiple workgroups to build and access applications as if they were running in separate databases.

- Audience
- Related Documents
- Conventions

### Audience

Oracle APEX App Builder User’s Guide is intended for application developers who are building database-centric web applications using Oracle APEX. The guide describes how to use the Oracle APEX development environment to build, debug, manage, and deploy applications.

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 run Oracle APEX.

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### Related Documents

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

- Oracle APEX Documentation Library

- Oracle AI Database Concepts

- Oracle AI Database Administrator’s Guide

- 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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boldface | Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
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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