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* _TL are tables corresponding to another table with the same name minus the
_TL. These tables provide
multiple language support. For each item in the table without _TL ther
e can be many rows in
the _TL table,but all with different values in the LANGUAGE column.
* _B these are the BASE tables.
They are very important and the data is stored in the table with all valid
ations.
It is supposed that these table will always contain the perfect format dat
a.
If anything happens to the BASE table data, then it is a data corruption i
ssue.
* _F these are date tracked tables, which occur in HR and Payroll. For thes
e there are two date columns
EFFECTIVE_START_DATE and EFFECTIVE_END_DATE which together with the PK
identifies a row uniquely.
The date intervals cannot overlap. Many think they are Secured data. G
uess someone from Oracle
confirms.
* _VL are views for multi language tables which combines the row of the base
table with the corresponding
row of the _TL table where the LANGUAGE = USERENV('LANG').
* _S are sequences, used for finding new values for the primary key of a tab
le.
* _A are Audit Shadow Tables
* _AVN and _ACN are Audit Shadow Views (when data was changed, and with what
values