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Overview

The GL_BUDGET_INTERIM table is a global temporary table within the Oracle E-Business Suite General Ledger (GL) module. Its primary role is to serve as a transient staging area for budget posting interim balances during the execution of specific budget-related processes. As a session-specific temporary table, data inserted by one user session is isolated and invisible to all other sessions. The data duration is set to SYS$SESSION, meaning all rows are automatically purged upon session termination. This design is critical for ensuring data integrity and concurrency during complex budget calculations and postings, preventing interim results from interfering with other operations or users.

Key Information Stored

The table stores granular budget balances at the intersection of key accounting dimensions. Its structure includes identifying columns and a series of period amount columns. Key identifying columns include LEDGER_ID, CODE_COMBINATION_ID (the accounting flexfield combination), CURRENCY_CODE, BUDGET_VERSION_ID, BUDGET_ENTITY_ID (the budget organization), and period identifiers (PERIOD_YEAR, PERIOD_TYPE, STATUS_NUMBER). The table also tracks the ACCOUNT_TYPE (e.g., Asset, Liability) and flags for debit amounts (DR_FLAG) and translated balances (TRANSLATED_FLAG). The core financial data is held in the PERIOD1_AMOUNT through PERIOD11_AMOUNT columns, which store budget amounts for specific accounting periods within the cycle. Standard WHO columns (LAST_UPDATE_DATE, LAST_UPDATED_BY) are present for auditing.

Common Use Cases and Queries

This table is predominantly used by internal Oracle EBS processes and is rarely queried directly for reporting. Its main use case is during the posting of budget journals or the execution of budget rules, where interim calculations need to be held temporarily before final posting to permanent budget balance tables (like GL_BUDGET_BALANCES). A typical pattern involves a process populating this table, performing validations or aggregations, and then transferring the results. For diagnostic purposes, a developer might query session-specific data during a budget posting run to verify interim calculations. A sample query to inspect data for a specific budget version would be:

  • SELECT code_combination_id, period_year, status_number, period1_amount FROM gl.gl_budget_interim WHERE budget_version_id = 1001 AND ledger_id = 1;

It is imperative to remember that such a query will only return data if executed within the same session that is actively running the budget process that populated the table.

Related Objects

GL_BUDGET_INTERIM is defined by foreign key relationships to several core General Ledger setup and transaction tables, ensuring referential integrity for the temporary data. The documented relationships are as follows:

These relationships indicate that the interim data is a transient, session-local snapshot of budget balances that conforms to the application's master data constraints before being permanently committed elsewhere in the GL schema.