Different Types of Table in Oracle Apps/ Oracle Applications
If you deal with oracle application tables in your day to day professional life then you might have observed the suffixes used in the oracle applications tables. Following is a list to describe the meanings of these suffixes.
_B : The Main base tables
_ALL : Contains multi org data. There will be similar table without _ALL as well . Before querying this data the environment variable needs to be set. Dbms_application_info.set_client_info('org_id'), or apps_initialize can be used to set the environment variable.common column.
_V : View created on base tables. Mostly forms are created based on these views.
_TL : Tables that support multi language.
_VL : View created on multi language tables. These views generally uses the base tables and _tl tables.
_F : This indicates that these are the date tracking tables. These tables are generally seen for HRMS and contain 2 common columns effective_start_date and effective_end_date.
_S : sequence related tables.
_DFV /_KFV: The DFF(Descriptive Flex Fields)/KFF(Key Flex Fields) table created on the base table. This is the best way to get the concatenated value of DFF/KFF.
Also using these tables the values can be queried based on the DFF/KFF name and not attributes column.
_X : Current information table..there is no date tracking .
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