Fusion Table Suffixes
Fusion Table Suffixes
Fusion Table Suffixes
You have lot of tables ending with different suffixes in Oracle Apps database.
Did you ever wonder what these denote? Listed below are the different table suffixes and what they mean.
_ALL Table ending with _ALL means it stores data related to multiple organizations.
Such tables definitely will have a column called org_id which specifies to which org the record belongs to.
You can also set the client_info to specific operating unit to see the data specific to that operating unit only.
Check out the article -> MOAC – Oracle Apps ORG_ID, Multi Org Concept
_TL Table ending with _TL is a Translation Table or multi language tables. Such tables have a column called language. These tables
provide multiple language support.
The primary key is the id column plus the language column.
multi language tables always has corresponding another table with the same name minus the _TL a table without postfix or postfix
as _B or postfix as _F
Translatable table. Holds the translated names/descriptions for base objects will have one row per installed language linked to the
base table by the _id column.
Tables in which data is tracked with two date columns (Effective_start_Date, Effective_end_date). These tables are primarily used
in HRMS and payroll modules
_VL Tables ending with _VL are Views built upon multi language or translation tables. In other words such views combine base table
data with translation table data. If you wish to see the data related to a one particular language, you should set the language using
USERENV(‘LANG’).
but the view that represents the join of the base table and the TL table using the user’s session language. You can assume that
almost all _TL tables come paired with a _VL view.
_X Again a view on top of the base table but displays only those date tracked records that are effective as of sysdate, e.g.
per_people_x
_S Tables ending with _S are Sequences used for finding new values for the primary key of a table.
_A, _Avn, _ACn Tables ending with _A, _Avn, _ACn are audit tables