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Overview

OTA_CONFERENCES is a transactional table in the OTA (Oracle Training Administration) schema, the foundation of the Learning Management module in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.1 and 12.2.2. The table stores the web conference definition associated with a scheduled class or event. Per the ETRM documentation, a web conference belongs to only one class and a class may have only one web conference — a strict one-to-one relationship enforced through the EVENT_ID foreign key against OTA_EVENTS. This object is exclusively used for integration with Oracle Collaboration Suite (OCS), which supplies the conferencing infrastructure referenced by CONFERENCE_SERVER_ID.

From a Data Vault modeling perspective, OTA_CONFERENCES is heuristically classified as a link. This classification is a modeling suggestion derived from the foreign key structure: the table primarily associates two business entities — a learning event (OTA_EVENTS) and a conference server (OTA_CONFERENCE_SERVERS_B) — while carrying descriptive and integration attributes alongside the relationship. The table holds 45 documented columns in the 12.2.2 physical schema and is owned by the OTA schema with VALID status.

Key Information Stored

The surrogate primary key is CONFERENCE_ID, defined by the unique index OTA_CONFERENCES_PK. No separate business-key unique index is documented, so CONFERENCE_ID is the sole documented unique key candidate. The most significant columns are:

Common Use Cases and Queries

Typical usage centers on class scheduling reports, conference-server utilization, and OCS integration troubleshooting. A common join retrieves conference details for a class:

  • Join OTA_CONFERENCES to OTA_EVENTS on EVENT_ID to report all web-enabled classes with their conference start and end timestamps.
  • Query ATTENDEE_URL and DIAL_IN to distribute connection instructions to enrolled learners.
  • Join to OTA_CONFERENCE_SERVERS_B on CONFERENCE_SERVER_ID to balance or audit load across conferencing servers.
  • Filter on BUSINESS_GROUP_ID to scope results to a single operating unit.
  • Use OBJECT_VERSION_NUMBER in integration code to detect concurrent updates before writing host or meeting keys.
  • Detect missing conferences by outer-joining OTA_EVENTS to OTA_CONFERENCES and filtering NULL CONFERENCE_ID.

Related Objects

  • OTA_EVENTS — parent class/event entity; joined via OTA_CONFERENCES.EVENT_ID = OTA_EVENTS.EVENT_ID.
  • OTA_CONFERENCE_SERVERS_B — defines the conference server; joined via CONFERENCE_SERVER_ID.
  • CS_WEB_CONFERENCES — downstream integration table referencing OTA_CONFERENCES.CONFERENCE_ID.
  • OTA_LEARNER_ENROLLMENTS — enrollment records whose learners receive conference URLs for web-enabled classes.
  • OTA_DELEGATE_BOOKINGS or equivalent OTA booking tables — supply participant context for conference attendance reporting.