“Oracle never killed Web DB; they never enhanced it,” Hichwa said. “We created a new product, Apex. There was a broken lineage, it was dropped, then picked up again. I apologize to users.

Release 2.0 of Oracle HTML DB delivers a wider range of capabilities that allow users to more easily develop Web-based applications, design SQL queries, and edit SQL and PL/SQL within a Web browser.

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Cesar Cerrudo, CEO of Argeniss, a database security research company in Buenos Aires, Argentina, said the most serious bug affects Oracle Application Express (formerly called Oracle HTML DB) and ...

Both relational database systems have played a crucial role in the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) software stack for web applications, which is used by some of the world's most popular websites.

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HTML DB began life in February 2004 when version 1.5 debuted. Apex 2.2 marks the fourth release of the software, Hichwa said. He was deeply involved in the design of both Web DB and Apex.