Commands to create schema for Oracle APEX Workspace

If you choose to create a schema while creating the workspace in Oracle Application Express administration service, APEX will create a brand new tablespace as well. This may not be an ideal situation. Having too many tablespaces, specially when it is not required, adds management and administrative overhead.

You can use the following script to create the schema and then just use this schema when you are creating the worksace. (Substitute your own values for values shown in blue color)

-- Connect as SYSTEM or DBA User $ sqlplus system/password@XE -- Create the new Schema/User CREATE USER APEXAPPS IDENTIFIED BY APEXAPPS DEFAULT TABLESPACE APEXAPPS_TS TEMPORARY TABLESPACE TEMP; -- Grant quota on assigned tablespace ALTER USER APEXAPPS QUOTA 10M ON APEXAPPS_TS ; -- Grant Role Priviledge GRANT "CONNECT" TO APEXAPPS ; ALTER USER APEXAPPS DEFAULT ROLE "CONNECT"; -- Grant system privileges GRANT CREATE JOB TO APEXAPPS ; GRANT CREATE INDEXTYPE TO APEXAPPS ; GRANT CREATE SYNONYM TO APEXAPPS ; GRANT CREATE DIMENSION TO APEXAPPS ; GRANT CREATE VIEW TO APEXAPPS ; GRANT CREATE CLUSTER TO APEXAPPS ; GRANT CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW TO APEXAPPS ; GRANT CREATE PROCEDURE TO APEXAPPS ; GRANT CREATE ANY CONTEXT TO APEXAPPS ; GRANT CREATE TYPE TO APEXAPPS ; GRANT CREATE SEQUENCE TO APEXAPPS ; GRANT CREATE OPERATOR TO APEXAPPS ; GRANT CREATE TRIGGER TO APEXAPPS ; GRANT CREATE TABLE TO APEXAPPS ; -- Grant Object Privileges GRANT EXECUTE ON SYS.DBMS_RLS TO APEXAPPS ; GRANT EXECUTE ON CTXSYS.CTX_DDL TO APEXAPPS ; GRANT EXECUTE ON CTXSYS.CTX_DOC TO APEXAPPS ;

These commands will create the schema and assign the same privileges to that schema that gets assigned when you create a new schema while creating the APEX workspace (verified in Oracle APEX 3.1.2). Once the schema is created specify 'Yes' for Re-use existing schema and then specify the schema name as shown below.