I thought I'd have a little fun this Halloween and see if AI could entertain us with a spooky story about Oracle APEX.  The following tale is what it created...

It was late one Halloween night, and Devin, an experienced Oracle APEX developer, sat alone in his dimly lit office. Outside, thunder rolled, and rain splattered against the windows. Devin had a massive deadline looming, so he was fine spending Halloween with his laptop rather than with friends. He opened his project: an ambitious, complex APEX application he’d spent months building. But tonight, something was... different.

As he began typing, his screen flickered. His mouse moved on its own, hovering over the APEX SQL Workshop. Thinking it was a hardware glitch, he laughed it off. But as he reached to take control, the cursor darted to a different tab, opening a schema browser he hadn’t clicked on. His tables appeared one by one, each of their names shifting into sinister forms: “LOST_USERS,” “MISSING_DATA,” “THE_FORGOTTEN…”

A chill ran down Devin's spine. The screen glowed a sickly green, and suddenly, every item in his application tree started expanding on its own, showing procedures, triggers, and code he didn’t remember writing. Frantically, he scrolled through his code—lines he'd never written were there, commands he’d never seen: “DELETE FROM USERS WHERE EXISTS…” “ALTER TABLE REMOVE ALL CONSTRAINTS…”

Devin tried to close the application, but nothing happened. Panic surged as his fingers typed against his will, opening and executing SQL commands. On the screen, a message appeared in red letters, like blood slowly dripping down:

“Hello, Devin. I see you’ve forgotten about me.”

He remembered the story in a flash—an old, scrapped APEX app he’d once built for a client who suddenly went out of business. They'd never paid him, and he’d frustratedly deleted the project. Or so he thought. But as the chilling message continued to scrawl itself across the screen, he realized the truth. The code had been left behind, hidden in the database, lurking in the depths of the schema like a vengeful spirit, slowly corrupting each new app he developed.

The screen pulsed with a ghostly glow, and one last command flashed before him as the power cut out:

“RESTORE THE FORGOTTEN… OR YOUR DATA WILL HAUNT YOU FOREVER.”

And then, silence. Devin’s laptop was bricked, his APEX app disappeared, and his entire project was lost.