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MIT Data Warehouse LIBRARY ALLOCATION DETAIL Table


Includes details of the Budget Transactions for Allocations, Transfers, and Year End Carryovers only (e.g., Transaction Dates, Amounts). See LIBRARY_FINANCIAL_DETAIL for other transaction types. Data in this table is taken from the Z601 table in Aleph.


Field Name

Description

Data Type

Length

ALLOCATION_AMOUNT

Dollar amount of the budget allocation. (Z601-LOCAL-SUM)

NUMBER

22

LIBRARY_FUND_KEY

Key used to join to the LIBRARY_FUND table. This field should only be used for joining data, NOT for reporting.

VARCHAR2

20

NOTE

For the LIBRARY FINANCIAL DETAIL and LIBRARY ALLOCATION DETAIL tables, the NOTE field contains detailed explanation of the budget transaction. May be system assigned e.g. INVOICE, ORDER ENCUMBRANCE (Z601-NOTE). For the CIP table, this field contains additional information regarding the CIP program.

VARCHAR2

100

RECORD_COUNTER

Used to count records within a group on a report. Always contains a value of 1.

NUMBER

1

TRANSACTION_DATE

Original date of the transaction. (Z601-OPEN-DATE or just Date in the client)

DATE

8

TRANSACTION_SORT_SEQUENCE

A unique sequence number, usually a time and date stamp, assigned by Aleph. Not sure if there is an accurate time and date stamp associated with migrated data, but it should be accurate for all Aleph-born data. (Z601-SEQUENCE)

VARCHAR2

15

TRANSACTION_TYPE_KEY

Key used to join to the LIBRARY_TRANSACTION_TYPE table. This field should only be used for joining data, NOT for reporting.

VARCHAR2

3

TRANSACTION_USER

Original user (person) who created the transaction. (Z601-USER-NAME)

VARCHAR2

10

WAREHOUSE_LOAD_DATE

The date the record was loaded into the Data Warehouse from the source system.

DATE

8