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ACADEMIC YEAR

Contains information about academic years.


Field Name Description Data Type Length
ACADEMIC_YEAR Academic year, eg. 1999-2000, 2001-2002 VARCHAR2 9
ACADEMIC_YEAR_DESC Description for the academic year VARCHAR2 30
ACADEMIC_YEAR_KEY Use this field to join the ACADEMIC YEAR table to a fact table for time dimension information. VARCHAR2 4
ACAD_YEAR_BEGIN_TERM The first/begining term of an academic year, usually it's the Fall term VARCHAR2 12
BEGIN_YEAR The calendar year when the academic year starts. For example, in academic year 2001-2002, this field contains the value "2001". This is a numeric year which can be used for computation NUMBER 4
END_YEAR The calendar year when the academic year ends. For example, in academic year 2001-2002, this field contains the value "2002". This is a numeric field which can be used for computation NUMBER 4
WAREHOUSE_LOAD_DATE The date the records were last loaded/updated in this table in the Data Warehouse DATE 7

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