ORACLE APEX · 26.1 Why Your Reporting Backlog Never Gets Shorter (And How Oracle APEX Data Reporter Fixes That) What it's actually like to set up Data Reporter, including the part where I got it wrong twice. If you've built anything in Oracle APEX for long enough, you've had this exact conversation. Someone from finance messages you: can we get a report showing X, filtered by Y, broken down by Z. You add it to the backlog. Three weeks later you're finally writing the SQL, and by then the question has moved on to something else entirely. Honestly, APEX isn't really the problem here. Report authoring and application development have just always been tangled together every report, however small, had to go through a developer, a Page Designer session, a review, a deployment. Oracle APEX 26.1 ships a new module called Data Reporter that tries to untangle that. It sits next to App Builder and SQL Workshop, and the idea is that business users build a...