COURSE ATTRIBUTE

DATA VIEW NAME
COURSE_ATTRIBUTE
OVERVIEW
This view contains course attribute information for all course records.
LOAD FREQUENCY
Data is refreshed daily Monday through Friday.
DATA CUSTODIAN
Registrar’s Office
Contact: Phil Hull
AUTHORIZATION
You must receive approval to access data from the data custodian. For information about how to get authorized for InfoAccess data views, connect to the InfoAccess Home Page
SPECIAL
CONSIDERATIONS
None
QUESTIONS
Contact: Division of Information Technology Help Desk
Phone: 264-HELP (4357)
LAST UPDATED
10/2008 – New view created.
1/2010 – Data Custodian Change C4j
09/2012 – Data Custodian Contact changed from Karen Hanson to Kim Alling
11/2014 – Attribute_Code = OFFR were eliminated (planned offering now availabe in Course_Offering) s8w.
DATA FORMATS
Primary Key Columns are identified with an asterisk(*)
Alphanumeric Data
VARCHAR2( N) (N) = maximum length. Field contains letters and/or numbers. Trailing blanks are eliminated.
Example: VARCHAR2 (5) could contain ‘ABC12’ or ‘ABC’ or ‘A’
Numeric Data
NUMBER (N) (N) = length. Field contains only numbers.
NUMBER (X,Y) = format for numbers with decimal positions.
X = total number of digits
Y = the number of digits after the decimal
Examples: NUMBER (6) represents 250012 NUMBER (6,2) represents 2500.12
Date
DATE – Date can be in various formats. Date functions available with your query tool can be used to format the date.
Examples: DATE (YYYYMMDD), DATE (YYDDD), DATE (DD-MM-YY)
Column Name Format Description
*Course_Key Number(8) A unique identifier that is system generated. Useful for joining to other course data views.
Course_Attribute_Code Varchar2(4) Course attribute code
Course_Attribute_Code_Descr Varchar2(30) Description of course attribute code
Course_Attribute_Value Varchar2(10) Course attribute value code
Course_Attribute_Value_Descr Varchar2(30) Description of course attribute value code
Extract_Date_Time Date The date and time these data were extracted.
Format : YYYYMMDD HH24:MI:SS
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