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Overview
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Overview

IGS_RC_I_CHAR_INT is an interface table within the Oracle E-Business Suite IGS — Student System (Oracle Student System / Recruitment) product family. As its description states, it "holds admission inquiry characteristics interface records." In the EBS architecture, interface tables act as the landing zone for inbound data before validation and transfer into the base application tables. For admission inquiries, this table captures the characteristic (attribute) values associated with a prospect or inquiry record that have been staged from an external source — such as a web form, a legacy recruitment system, or a batch load — awaiting import processing.

Because the table is designated "Not implemented in this database," it is a definition-only object in the referenced environment; column-level population would occur only where the Recruitment/Admissions interface is active. From a Data Vault modeling perspective, the heuristic classification mined from the FK structure is standalone — it exhibits no outward foreign-key dependencies in the documented metadata, suggesting it behaves as an isolated staging entity rather than a hub, link, or satellite in the canonical model. This is consistent with interface tables, which typically reconcile to base hubs and satellites during the ETL load rather than participating directly in the dimensional model.

Key Information Stored

The documented metadata identifies a single explicit column, which is also the table's primary key:

  • INTERFACE_INQ_CHAR_ID — the system-generated surrogate primary key, enforced by constraint IGS_RC_I_CHAR_INT_PK. This value uniquely identifies each staged inquiry-characteristic interface row and is the column referenced when searching by the term "interface_inq_char_id." As the sole documented key, it is a surrogate identifier; the natural (business) key for an inquiry characteristic — typically a composite of inquiry identifier plus characteristic code — is not documented here and would be represented by additional character/attribute columns in the full table definition.

In practice, an interface table of this nature also carries the inquiry reference, the characteristic code and value, and interface processing status/date columns. The metadata confirms only the primary key column, so any further column names should be confirmed against the shipped DDL for the target release (12.1.1 or 12.2.2), where the object definition may differ from the definition-only state recorded here.

Common Use Cases and Queries

Interface tables such as this are queried primarily during interface troubleshooting, reconciliation, and pre-import validation. Typical scenarios include:

  • Staging verification — confirming that external inquiry characteristics loaded successfully before the import concurrent program runs.
  • Exception research — inspecting rows that failed validation or remained after a partial import.
  • Reconciliation — comparing staged characteristic counts against the target base tables.

A representative pattern retrieves staged rows by surrogate key or by processing status:

SELECT interface_inq_char_id FROM igs_rc_i_char_int WHERE interface_inq_char_id = :p_id;

Reporting should generally avoid this table once data is promoted; it is a transient staging object, and trustworthy reporting is performed against the base inquiry-characteristic entities.

Related Objects

The documented metadata classifies this object as standalone, meaning no foreign keys point outward from it. Consequently, join relationships are implicit through the staging lifecycle rather than declared by constraint. Relevant related objects include:

  • IGS_RC_I_CHAR_INT_PK — the primary key constraint that uniquely identifies each interface row via INTERFACE_INQ_CHAR_ID.
  • Base inquiry and inquiry-characteristic tables in the IGS Recruitment module — the ultimate targets into which validated rows are converted by the import process.
  • Interface import/validation concurrent programs and their associated error/log tables — the mechanisms that consume staged rows and report failures.
  • Admission inquiry header and detail entities — the parent records to which the staged characteristics ultimately attach.

Because the object is not implemented in the reference database, administrators should verify the actual component DDL and any dependent views, triggers, or grants in their specific 12.1.1 or 12.2.2 instance before designing integrations or reports.