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1. What is dynamic sql?

Ans:- pl/sql uses early binding , so we cant execute DDL statements in

pl/sql.

To over come this situation we have two options

1> we can use EXECUTE IMMIDIATE statement

2> we can use DBMS_SQL package

2. tell me 5 important tables in GL

GL_JE_HEADERS

GL_JE_LINES

GL_JE_BATCHES

GL_SETS_OF_BOOKS

GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS

GL_PERIODS

GL_BUDGETS

3. What are User Exits

A user exit is a 3GL program where it can be linked to the report

builder executable

There are 3 types of user interfaces

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a> ORACLE user interfaces

b> OCI (Oracle Caller Interface)

c> None-Oracle user exit

4. What are the User Parameters in User Exits?

srw.user_exit('FND SRWINIT');

user exit is the mandatory parameter in srw.user_exit

5. how many interfaces in GL, AP what are they?

3 interfaces in GL.

6. Is it possible to use User Exits in Reportbuilder?how.

yes,

In BEFORE REPORT we call srw.user_exit('FND SRWINIT')

In AFTER REPORT we call srw.user_exit('FND SRWEXIT')

7. diff between functions and procedures

procedure is called as pl/sql statement

function is called as an expression and it can called from SELECT

statement.

8. diff between ap_invoice_all and ap_invoice

The _all tables are sharable in multi oraganization environment

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and it contains ORG_ID field.

10.place holder ,summary columns, formulae columns?

Place holder is a column for which you set the data type and value

in PL/SQL that u define.

This can be used in BEFORE REPORT trigger, if the place holder is a

report level trigger.

A report level formulae column, if the place holder is a report_level

column

A formula in the placeholder's group or a group below it(The value is

set only once for each record

of the group).

A summary column can be either report level or group level is used

to get the value of

built in function on a single column.

A formulae column can be either report level or group level is used

to get the values from

one or more columns.

11. Multi org concepts?

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It is a serverside enhancement where multiple business units can use a

single installation of oracle

product.

The architecture of multi org is, Business group,set of

books,operating units,Inventories.

ORG_ID is stored in operation units and ORGANIZATION_ID is stored in

inventories.There is one-to-many

relationship between them.

12.lexical parameters and bind parameters?

Lexical parameter is a replacement of text string in select

statement, it is preceded by & (ampersand).

For this we need to create user parameter,It should be character and

intialised. We need to pass the values

at runtime for this lexical parameter.

Bind parameter is a replacement of single value or expression in

select statement. It is preceded by

colon(:). It can be number,date, or character data type.It cannot be

used in FROM clause.

13.How can we execute the query in the report trigger?

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Using SRW.DO_SQL we can execute the DDL and DML queries.

This procedure executes the specified SQL statement from within Report

Builder.

The SQL statement can be DDL, or DML (statements that manipulate data).

14.firing sequence of report triggers?

BEFORE PARAMETER FORM

AFTER PARAMETER FORM

BEFORE REPORT TRIGGER

BETWEEN PAGES

AFTER REPORT TRIGGER

15.key flexfields, and descriptive flexfieds.

Key flex fields captures the unique information, and descriptive

flexfields captures the

more information.

The key flex field in GL is Accounting Flex Field.

The KFF in AR are Territory and Sales tax.

16.where will you write user exits

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The FND SRWINIT in BEFOR REPORT trigger and

the FND SRWEXIT in AFTER REPORT trigger.

17.what is mutating table.

A trigger is trying to modify the triggering table. To overcome this

we need to use

temporary table and views.

A table in transition then we called that table is mutating.

18. what are Retcode, and Errbuff

These are mandatory parameters when we write concurrent program using

stored procedures.

RETCODE contains 3 values 0-for sucess,1-sucess with warnings,

2-errors.

ERRBUFF contains error message.

Concurrent manager will fill the values for these parameters.

19.request group?

Collection of requests, request sets and concurrent programs that a

user can operate under a

given responsibility.

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20.what are the mandatory paramenters we have to pass in report?

P_conc_REQ_ID.

P_ORG_ID.

21. What is a data group?

A data group is a collection of Oracle Applications and the user

names assigned to

each application. Generally the user name is apps schema.

22. What is short name, and base path?

A short name is used to identify menus,forms, concurrent programs,

and other application

components.

A base pathe is top directory in applications directory tree.

23.Is table registration is mandatory in apps?

No, but when ever we use flex fields and alerts then it is

mandatory.

24. What are the procedures used for registration and deletion of

tables in apps?

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AD_DD.REGISTER_TABLES(appl short name,

table name,

table type,

pct. Next extent,

pct. tree,

pct. used)

AD_DD.REGISTER_COLUMN(appl short name,

table name,

column name,

column seq,

data type,

witdth,

nullable,

transferable); and optional precission.

AD_DD.DELETE_COLUMN(appl short name,

table name,

column name)

AD_DD.DELETE_TABLE(appl short name,

table name)

25. what are the components of the environment variable?

reports, forms, pl/sql, bin, log

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26. what are the components of form registration?

form, funciton, menu.

27. which name is appear on the form window?

User Form Name will appear on the form window.

and User Function Name will appear on the Top 10 list of the

Navigator window.

28. What are the parameters of the parameter column of the Function

window?

1> QUERY_ONLY = YES

2> HELP_TARGET = "Alternative form_name"

3> TITLE = "appl_shortname.menu name"

29. What is alert and work flow?

Monitor db information and notify you when the condition we

specified is found.

Automates and streamlines business processes contained within

enterprises and

between enterprises.

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30. What are the executable methods ?

Oracle Reports,

PL/SQL Stored Procedures,

SQL* LOADER,

SQL PLUS.

host, Immidiate,spawned,Java stored procedure, Java concurrent

program.

31. How do you submit concurrent request from a pl/sql code?

FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT_REQUEST

If it is sucess then it returns the submitted request, otherwise

it is 0.

32.what is user profile and their precedence?

A user profile is a set of changable options that affects the way

ur application looks

and behaves.

1> Site

2> Application

3> Responsibility

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35.How do you access profile values in reports?

:$PROFILE$.Profile Name

36. How do give the parameter values which are based on the previous

parameter values?

:$FLEX$.parameter name

37. What is a token?

A token is an argument to pass parameters from oracle reports to

oracle applications.

39. How do you delete duplicate rows in a table?

DELETE FROM EMP A

WHERE ROWID > (SELECT MIN(ROWID)

FROM EMP B

WHERE A.ENAME = B.ENAME)

40. what is a format trigger?

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It is a layout model trigger, dynamically chage the attributes

of a

column.

41. What is GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS and GL_SETS_OF_BOOKS?

GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS stores valid account combinations for each

Accounting FF in GL.

GL_SETS_OF_BOOKS sotres the sets of books information in GL.

42. What is pre_payment ?

Advance payment paid to the supplier for future purchases.

There are two types of pre_payments

1> Temporary - which is adjustable towards the invoice

2> Permanant - which is not adjustable towards the invoice but

can be

convertable to

temporary pre_payment.

43. What are purchase orders?

1> Standard

2> Blanket

3> Contract

4> Planned

44. What is an anchor?

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It determines the horizontal and vertical position of an object.

45. What is auto accounting?

Transfering the receivable amount to the GL.

46. what are the interfaces in GL,AP,and PO

GL- 1> Journal Import

2> Budgets

3> Daily Rates

AP- 1> Paybles Open Interface Import

2> Credit card transaction interface

3> Invoice Import Interface

4> Purchase Order Matching

PO- 1> Import Items

47. What is the diff between SPO and BPO?

SPO contains all item,quantity,price,delivery

shedule,distribution

set,and

ship to location.

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BPO contains all except delivery sheduled for this we

need to release

blanket

purchase order.

48. List some of the errors in Interfaces?

ORA - 00054 : Resource busy and acquire with NO WAIT

ORA - 12154 : TNS : Could not resolve service name

49. How many files you are using in Interface ?

1> flat file

2> Control file

3> Bad file

4> Discard file (Rejected file)

5> Log file

50. What is control file ?

It contains set of instructions for transfering data from flat

file to

database

tables through SQL *LOADER.

51. What is Bad file,Discard file and Log file?

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Bad file is generated with the data erros in the flat file.

Discard file is generated for the when clause failed records of

the cotrol file.

Log file contains the detail information about the data

processing.

No of sucessfully loaded records

No of rows not loaded due to data errors.

No of rows not loaded due to when clause failed.

52. what is the difference between APPEND and INSERT ?

APPEND adds the records at the end of the table.

Before using INSERT data in the table should be empty.

53. What is the purpose of TRAILING NULLCOLS ?

Columns must be configured relative to their positioning.

54. What is the purpose CONCATINATE ?

To create one logical row from a set of physical rows.

55. what are the 3cs of sets of books?

charts of accounts

calander

currency

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56. what is charts of accounts ?

charts of accounts is a accounting structure of the

organization.

57. what is a journal and what are the types of balances?

Journal is an accounting transaction.

Balances types are Actual, Balances, Encumbarrance.

58. what are the 6Ms ?

1> Retained Earnings

2> Suspense account

3> Translation Adjustments

4> Reserve for Encumbrance

5> Net Income

6> Rounding of Numbers

59. what are the types of recurring journals?

1> Standard

2> Formula

3> Skelton

60.what are the topics in GL?

1> Journals

2> Recurring Journals

3> Mass Allocation

4> Translation

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5> Revaluation

6> Budgeting

a. Planning Budget

b. Funding Budget

c. Mass Budget

7> FSG(Financial Statement Generator)

8> Global Consolidation

9> MRC (Multiple Report Currencies)

61. what are the important tables in GL?

GL_JE_LINES

GL_JE_HEADERS

GL_JE_BATCHES

GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS

GL_SETS_OF_BOOKS

GL_PERIODS

GL_BALANCES

62. what is the Purchase Order ?

1> Requistion

2> RFQ

3> Quotation

4> Approved Quotation

5> PO

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Requistion is of two types,

1> Internal Requition (Requirement is with in organization)

2>Purchase Requition (Buying from 3rd party)

RFQ cand be created in two types,

1> Manual Create

2> Auto Create

Type of RFQ's are

a> Standard (contains items,quantity,price,delivery

shedule,distribution set)

b> Catalog (provides catalog means of items and its

price)

c> Bid (which are not frequently used)

62. What are the types of the POs?

1> Standard

2> Blanket

3> Contract

4> Planned

Standard PO contains all the information about

item,qty,price,delivery

sheduled,

ship to location and also distribution set.

Blanket PO contains all the informaion except the delivery

sheduled,

for this we

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need to release the BPO by giving delivery sheduled.

Contract Purchase Order, for this we need to create SPO against

CPO.

Planned PO contains tentive delivery sheduled.

63. what are the important tables in PO?

1>PO_VENDORS

2>PO_VENDOR_CONTACTS

3>PO_VENDOR_SITES

4>PO_LINE_LOCATIONS

5>PO_DISTRIBUTIONS

6>PO_HEADERS

7>PO_LINES

64. what are the types of invoices in AP?

1> Standard

2> Debit/Credit memo

3> Recurring

4> Pre payment

5> PO default

6> Quick match

7> Mixed

65. What are the matching types?

a> 2-way PO+INVOICE

b> 3-way PO+INVOICE+RECEIPT

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c> 4-way PO+INVOICE+RECEIPT+INSPECTION

66.what is hold?

If the invoice and the PO does not match then system raises

Holds on

Invoice.

For these we need to release the holds.There are two types of holds.

1> System holds

2> User defined holds.

67.what are the important tables in AP?

AP_INVOICES

AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS

AP_AE_HEADERS

AP_AE_LINES

AP_BATCHES

AP_TERMS

AP_ACCOUNTING_EVENTS

AP_LOOKUP_CODES

AP_BANK_ACCOUNTS

AP_BANK_BRANCHES

Ap_INVOICE_PAYMENTS

68. List some reports in Oracle Apps.?

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1> Summery/Detail Budget Report

2> Master/Detail Budget Report

3> Summery Trail Balance

4> Future Payment Maturity Date Report

5> Invoice Register

6> Item Detail Report

7> PO detail Report

8> Vendor Quality Performance Analysis Report

9> General Ledger Reconcillation Report

10> PO Details by vendor and item report

11> Purchase value report

69. What is the diff. between procedure and function ?

A function should return a value through RETURN statement.

Function calling can be done in DML statements.

A procedure may or may not return a value through OUT parameter.

Procedure calling can not be done in DML statements.

With in the procedure we can use RETURN statement,but with out

any

argument after it.

70. What are the diff between procedures and packages?

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A package is stored in database.

A package is having information hiding and overloading

facilities.

With pacakges we can declare global variables.

Procedures in packages must be foward declared.

A procedure is stored either locally or in database.

A procedure can not provide information hiding.

A procedure can not declare global variables.

71. what are the diff between PL/SQL tables and Nested Tables.

Tables:

1> Tables can have Non-Sequential keys.

2> They can be negattive.

3> It can not be stored in the data base.

Nested Tables:

1> Nested tables have Sequential and positive keys.

2> It can be stored as data base object.

72. What are the diff between triggers and procedures?

1> Triggers are database objects.

2> In Triggers we can't use transactional control statements.

3> Triggers are fired by events in database.

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A trigger is trying to access the triggering table is called

mutating

table error.

This situation can be over come using Temporary tables and views.

78. what happens when we use RAISE?

It reraise the same exception, but the control goes to the

immediate

outer block.

79. which implementation methdologh you are using?

AIM (Application Implementation Method).

80. what are pragmas in PL/SQL?

Pragma is a precompiler directive. These are processed at

compile

time.

1> PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT

2> PRAGMA AUTONOMOUSE_TRANSACTION

3> PRAGMA RESTRICT_REFERENCES

4> PRAGMA SERIALLY_REUSABLE

81. How do you set the character report in D2K?

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Set 'yes' to the 'Design in character units' of the report

propery,

and

'character' to the 'Intial Value' of the MODE system parameter.

82. what are the attributes of the cursors ?

1> %ISOPEN

2> %FOUND

3> %NOTFOUND

4> %ROWCOUNT

83. What is the sequence of text triggers in Forms?

1> PRE_TEXT_ITEM

2> WHEN_NEW_ITEM_INSTANCE

3> KEY_NEXT_ITEM

4> WHEN_VALIDATE_ITEM

5> POST_TEXT_ITEM

84. What are ref. cursors?

Using ref.Cursor we can manage multiple work areas

programatically

with a cursor.

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Is used to issue user defined error message from the stored

procedure.

syntax :

RAISE_APPLICATON_ERROR(error_number,message,[,{true/false}]);

error_number : -20000 to -20999

This can be used in both executable and exception section.

89. Some of the packages used in development?

1> DBMS_TRANSACTION

2> DBMS_SQL

3> DBMS_ALERT

4> DBMS_ALERT

5> DBMS_PIPE

6> DBMS_OUTPUT.

90. what are the types of triggers ?

There are boadly 3 types of triggers.

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1> DML triggers

2> DDL triggers

3> System Triggers

12 Types of DML triggers. 3 statements X 2 level X 2 timing

91. What are SQLCODE and SQLERRM in PL/SQL ?

SQLCODE returns the error number.

SQLERRM returns the error message.

These are especially used in WHEN OTHERS exception handler.

92. what is a database link ?

A data base link is a reference to the remote database.

93. What are PL/SQL variables ?

%TYPE and %ROWTYPE are the pl/sql variables.

%TYPE associates a variable with the table's field datatype.

%ROWTYPE associates a variable with the table's row datatype.

94. Where are the procedures, functions, and packages are stored ?

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1> USER_OBJECTS (Procedures,functions and package body)

2> USER_SOURCE

3> USER_ERRORS

95. what are Materialized views ?

Materialized views are reduced sets of information used to

precompute,

replicate,

and distribute data. These are used in distribute environment, data

warehousing and DSS.

96. What are the Release 11i enhancements ?

It uses Oracle 8i features, CBO,Temporary Tables,Partitioned

Tables,and Materialized views.

97. What are the parameters of the FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT_REQUEST ?

Application short name, program name, description, start time, sub

request, argument1 to argument100.

98. what is the Application Name in CP Executable and CP windows?

In CP Executable, Application Name determines in which directory

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your report executable

is sotred.

In CP window, it is the name of the ORACLE user name your program

runs and where to

place the log and output files.

99. How do you get the ORG_ID ?

DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO.SET_CLIENT_INFO(ORG_ID);

100. Can we use transaction control statements in Triggers ?

Yes, we can use them only in autonomous triggers.