System Table Standards

System table standards must be observed for the following reasons:

• The product installation and upgrade process and customer modification data extract processes depend on the data prefix and owner flag values to determine the system data owned by each product.

• The standards ensure that there will be no data conflict in the product being developed and the future Oracle Utilities Application Framework release. They also ensure that there will be no data conflict between customer modifications and future Oracle Utilities product releases.

• The data prefix is used to prevent test data from being released to production.

Developer's Note: All test data added to the system data tables must be prefixed by ZZ (all upper case) in order for the installation and upgrade utility to recognize them as test data.