Recover a deleted APEX page or application - from Nick Buytaert

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Today, Nick Buytaert's post saved my life.  I deleted an app incautiously when I was talking via cellphone and planed to save the app definition.

https://apexplained.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/recover-a-deleted-apex-page-or-application


Thanks Nick.
Thanks for APEX with the fantastic Oracle flashback feature.

Lessons learnt:
  • never touch you App when you are on the phone...

Update 20160622:

I just had a interested thought, is that possible to recover the application created by other uses which just have been deleted???

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