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PeopleSoft for the Oracle DBA
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PeopleSoft for the Oracle DBA

by David Kurtz
November 2004
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
12h 52m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 4PeopleSoft DatabaseStructure: A Tale of TwoData Dictionaries

One of the ways that PeopleSoft is able to deliver the same application to any platform is by having its own data dictionary. Different database platforms structure their data dictionaries differently, and platform independence is an overriding principle in PeopleSoft. Except when building DDL scripts and performing audits, PeopleTools never interrogates the database's catalogue, but instead relies upon its own. PeopleTools is also a development environment, so it is necessary to have a way of defining a table before it is actually created in the database—the PeopleSoft data dictionary serves this function.

As introduced briefly in Chapter 1, a PeopleSoft database on any platform ...

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