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Overview

OKS_COV_TYPES_TL is the translation (multi-language support, MLS) table for coverage types within the Oracle Service Contracts (OKS) module. It stores the language-dependent, user-facing text attributes that describe a coverage type — the meaning (display name) and long description — while all language-independent attributes reside in the base table OKS_COV_TYPES_B. Every coverage type defined in the base table must have at least one corresponding row in OKS_COV_TYPES_TL for each installed language, enabling Oracle EBS to present coverage type names and descriptions in the session language of the end user.

The table is owned by the OKS schema and is marked VALID in the ETRM 12.2.2 physical schema catalog, where it is documented with 11 columns. From a heuristic Data Vault modeling perspective, this object classifies as a standalone entity. Because its primary key is a composite of business identifiers (CODE, LANGUAGE) rather than a system-generated surrogate, it is best modeled as a satellite attached to a coverage-type hub (OKS_COV_TYPES_B), holding the descriptive, descriptive-attribute payload keyed by language. It has no documented foreign-key dependencies to other tables within the mined FK structure.

Key Information Stored

The table's structure conforms strictly to Oracle MLS conventions:

  • CODE — The business identifier of the coverage type. Shared with OKS_COV_TYPES_B, it is the join key that links each translation row back to its base record.
  • LANGUAGE — The NLS language code (for example, US, DE, FR) identifying the language of this translation row.
  • MEANING — The translated, user-visible name of the coverage type shown in forms, lists of values, and reports.
  • DESCRIPTION — The translated free-text description providing additional detail about the coverage type's purpose or terms.
  • SOURCE_LANG — The language in which the base record was originally authored; the MLS seed language.
  • SFWT_FLAG — The standard Oracle Applications "Seed/Force-Write Flag" indicator used to distinguish seeded (Oracle-supplied) rows from user-defined translations.
  • CREATED_BY, CREATION_DATE — Standard "who/when" audit columns captured at row insertion.
  • LAST_UPDATED_BY, LAST_UPDATE_DATE — Standard audit columns for the most recent modification.
  • LAST_UPDATE_LOGIN — The login identifier of the user performing the last update, supporting concurrent-program and audit traceability.

The primary key OKS_COV_TYPES_TL_PK is defined on (CODE, LANGUAGE). This composite is a pure business-key surrogate for the MLS pattern; there is no separate single-column synthetic key. Because CODE is shared with the base table, it acts as the foreign-key linkage column to OKS_COV_TYPES_B, even though no explicit FK constraint appears in the heuristic relationship data.

Common Use Cases and Queries

Typical reporting scenarios join the translation table to the base table to resolve language-specific display text. A representative query that lists coverage types in the English (US) language is:

  • SELECT b.code, t.meaning, t.description FROM oks_cov_types_b b, oks_cov_types_tl t WHERE b.code = t.code AND t.language = 'US' AND b.active_flag = 'Y';

Common uses include: populating coverage-type lists of values in Service Contracts forms and iExpenses-style setup screens; building seeded-versus-user-defined inventory reports using SFWT_FLAG; and generating multilingual extracts for localization testing. When diagnosing missing or incorrect display text in a non-base language, the standard pattern is to confirm that a translation row exists for the target LANGUAGE, falling back to the SOURCE_LANG row when it does not.

Related Objects

The following objects are most significant when working with this table:

  • OKS_COV_TYPES_B — The base language-independent table; joined on CODE = CODE. It holds the coverage type's operational attributes and is the parent entity in MLS terms.
  • OKS_COV_TYPES_TL_PK — The composite primary key (CODE, LANGUAGE) ensuring one translation row per language per coverage type.
  • OKS_COVERAGE_TYPES_V / OKS_COV_TYPES_V — MLS views that automatically join the B and TL tables using the session language, typically the preferred reporting source.
  • OKS_COV_LINES and related coverage-line tables — reference coverage types by CODE and cascade language-independent attributes, but depend on the B table rather than TL directly.
  • FND_LANGUAGES — the source of valid LANGUAGE codes, considered by the MLS framework when validating rows in this table.

Because the object is classified as standalone with no mined foreign keys, referential integrity between OKS_COV_TYPES_TL and OKS_COV_TYPES_B is maintained by the MLS framework and DML APIs rather than by a declared database constraint.