Updated useful links in the supporting DB features tree

Author: SyNuOra

data-platform/data-development/devops-database/continuous-integration/db-supporting-features/README.md

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 To support LifeCycle changes the Oracle Database & APEX provide serveral PL/SQL Packages to support Metadata management. Maintianing a log or history of changes provides the abaility to track changes over time, associate updates with modification requests or bugs and support analysis of code.
 
-Databases, like files on the desktop, only a single version is saved by the storage engine in a consistent manner, ensuring the data's (metadata) integrity.
+Databases, like files on the desktop, only a single version is saved by the storage engine in a consistent manner, ensuring the data's (metadata) integrity. Metadata artifacts must be generated and exported from the various data dictionary and respositories and commited into Source Control & Version Management Systems. 
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+After development, automating this first stage of integration is crucial step to include database development into CICD. APEX development includes artifacts spanning multiple metadata repositories: APEX's own, schema objects in the database's data dictionary and ORDS.
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+Each area provides a series of packages for using metadata in Software LifeCycle Management.
 
 The primary PL/SQL pacakage are: 
 [DBMS_METADATA](https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/arpls/DBMS_METADATA.html#GUID-F72B5833-C14E-4713-A588-6BDF4D4CBA2A) 
-- The DBMS_METADATA package provides a way for you to retrieve metadata from the database dictionary as XML or creation DDL and to submit the XML to re-create the object.
+- The DBMS_METADATA package provides a way for you to retrieve metadata from the database dictionary as XML or creation DDL and to submit the XML to re-create the object. Use this to generate the data definition of schema objects.
 
 ## [APEX_EXPORT](https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/apex/23.2/aeapi/APEX_EXPORT.html#GUID-6A4628A6-9F86-4394-9938-87A7FFFC7BC8) 
 - The APEX_EXPORT package provides APIs to export the definitions of applications, files, feedback, and workspaces to text files.
 
 ## [DBMS_CLOUD_REPO](https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/autonomous-database/serverless/adbsb/dbms-cloud-repo-package.html#GUID-F8F0037B-6451-4742-9144-9FCE44459F64) 
-- The DBMS_CLOUD_REPO package provides for use of and management of cloud hosted code repositories from Oracle Database. Supported cloud code repositories include GitHub, AWS CodeCommit , and Azure Repos.
-## ORDS_MODULE 
+- The DBMS_CLOUD_REPO package provides for use of and management of cloud hosted code repositories from Oracle Database. Supported cloud code repositories include GitHub, AWS CodeCommit , and Azure Repos. This package is only available in OCI Autonomous Database deployments and along with integration with repositories, it provides a wrapper to DBMS_METADATA for Code Commit & Install from the repository.
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+## ORDS 
+- [ORDS REST APIs for APEX](https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-rest-data-services/23.4/orrst/api-oracle-apex.html) A set of ORDS REST APIs to retrieve APEX Workspace & Application statistics, details with support to export workspaces, applications and application components.
 - ORDS_MODULE provides PL/SQL APIs to manage ORDS objects, oauth clients, priviledges, roles and modules. Currently ORDS_MODULE is only documented in the code of the various packages, functions and views.
 
+The simplest deployment and set of APIS for Continuous Integration are available for APEX on Autonomous Database services, with Cloud Repository integration & Schema export via DBMS_CLOUD_REPO, and APEX applications via APEX_EXPORT. These two packages provide extensice capabilities to commit code changes into the repository with little work required to manage connectivity, generation and upload and commit operations.
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 # Table of Contents
 
@@ -37,10 +45,14 @@ The primary PL/SQL pacakage are:
 - [APEX_EXPORT](https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/apex/23.2/aeapi/APEX_EXPORT.html#GUID-6A4628A6-9F86-4394-9938-87A7FFFC7BC8 "APEX 23.2 API Reference")
 - [DBMS_CLOUD_REPO](https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/autonomous-database/serverless/adbsb/dbms-cloud-repo-package.html#GUID-F8F0037B-6451-4742-9144-9FCE44459F64 "Autonomous Database Supplied Package Reference") 
 
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-## [ThatJeffSmith](https://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/tag/liquibase/ "That Jeff Smith and Liquibase")
+## Blogs
+### [ThatJeffSmith](https://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/tag/liquibase/ "That Jeff Smith and Liquibase")
 - [BLOG: How to Export Your RESTful Services](https://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2018/12/how-to-export-your-restful-services/)
 
+### Other 
+- [CICD automation for Oracle APEX Apps](https://blogs.oracle.com/shay/post/cicd-automation-for-oracle-apex-apps)
+- [Git Version Management and CICD automation for Oracle APEX](https://blogs.oracle.com/shay/post/version-management-and-cicd-automation-for-oracle-apex)
+
 # Tutorials / How To's
 - TBD