Oracle supports 30 characters for object names, be it table, column, constraint, trigger, ... whatever.
Historically Oracle Designer used to add suffixes of 4 characters, and some of the built-in packages do also, e.g. for materialized view logs.
So generally 26 characters or less for object names is a good idea.
Oracle Apex prepends form items with a page reference e.g. P100_column_name.
Since it's easy to envisage an application having over a 100 pages, a limit of 25 characters should be imposed.
Importantly, you need to be aware that for PK columns, Apex imposes a limit of 22 characters for tabular forms.
See http://iadvise.blogspot.com/2006/12/apex-caveat-pk-column-name-length-it.html for details.
So in summing up the limits:
- table names 26 characters or less
- views, packages etc. can use 30 but try and stick to 26 characters or less
- column names generally 25 characters or less
- primary key column names 22 characters or less.
