PeopleSoft SQL Tables

PeopleSoft Projects:

PSPROJECTDEFN table stores information about projects created in Application Designer.
Try it out:

SELECT * FROM PSPROJECTDEFN
WHERE PROJECTNAME = 'Your_Project_name';

PSPROJECTITEM table stores objects inserted into your Application Designer project.
Try it out:

SELECT * FROM PSPROJECTITEM
WHERE PROJECTNAME = 'Your_Project_name';

Portal Structure:

PSPRSMDEFN is a Portal Structure Definition table. A good example is to use this table to find portal path for a specific component. Take a closer look on how this is done!.
PSPRSMPERM: Shows the permission lists that are assigned to a portal registry structure (content reference). The permission list name is under field PORTAL_PERMNAME.

XLAT Tables:

XLATTABLE: Stores translate values (PeopleSoft version prior to 8.4).
PSXLATDEFN: Stores all fields that have Xlat values. This table does not store any Xlat values.
PSXLATITEM: Stores fields with their actual translate values (PeopleSoft version 8.4 and above).

Record & Field Tables:

PSRECDEFN: Stores informations about tables. One row for each table. Field count and record type are two fields that are stored on this table.

CASE RECTYPE
        WHEN 0 THEN 'Table'
        WHEN 1 THEN 'View'
        WHEN 2 THEN 'Derived'
        WHEN 3 THEN 'Sub Record'
        WHEN 5 THEN 'Dynamic View'
        WHEN 6 THEN 'Query View'
        WHEN 7 THEN 'Temporary Table'
        ELSE TO_CHAR(RECTYPE)
END CASE

PSRECFIELD: Stores records with all their fields (sub-records are not expanded)
PSRECFIELDALL: Stores records with all their fields (sub-records are expanded)
PSINDEXDEFN: Contains 1 row per index defined for a table.
PSKEYDEFN: Containes 1 row per key field defined for an index.
PSDBFIELD: You got it, stores information about fields.

CASE FIELDTYPE
                WHEN 0 THEN 'Character'
                WHEN 1 THEN 'Long Character'
                WHEN 2 THEN 'Number'
                WHEN 3 THEN 'Signed Number'
                WHEN 4 THEN 'Date'
                WHEN 5 THEN 'Time'
                WHEN 6 THEN 'DateTime'
                WHEN 8 THEN 'Image'
                WHEN 9 THEN 'Image Reference'
                ELSE TO_CHAR(FIELDTYPE)
        END CASE

PSDBFLDLABL Stores field label information.

Process Definition Table(s):

PS_PRCSDEFNPNL: Stores the process definition name, process type(sqr report, application engine...), and the component name associated with the process definition.
PS_PRCSDEFN: Process definitions table. The record stores processes that can run within the Process Scheduler. Security information such as components and process groups are also stored on this table.

Message Catalog Tables:

PSMSGSETDEFN: Stores information about PeopleSoft message catalog message sets (descriptions, version).
PSMSGSETLANG: Message sets language table.
PSMSGCATDEFN: Stores information about PeopleSoft message catalogs such as message set number, message number and the actual message text.
PSMSGCATLANG: Message catalogs language table.

-- Example
SELECT * FROM PSMSGCATDEFN
WHERE LAST_UPDATE_DTTM  > TO_DATE('03-DEC-07', 'DD-MON-YY')
AND LAST_UPDATE_DTTM  < TO_DATE('05-DEC-07', 'DD-MON-YY')
ORDER BY MESSAGE_SET_NBR, MESSAGE_NBR;
-- This will return messages that has been last update/added between 2 specific dates.

Previous PeopleSoft message catalog tables:
PS_MESSAGE_CATALOG: Stores information about PeopleSoft message catalogs such as message set number, message number and the actual message text.
MESSAGE_SET_TBL: Message set description table.

-- Example
SELECT * FROM PS_MESSAGE_CATALOG
WHERE LAST_UPDATE_DTTM  > TO_DATE('03-DEC-07', 'DD-MON-YY')
AND LAST_UPDATE_DTTM  < TO_DATE('05-DEC-07', 'DD-MON-YY')
ORDER BY MESSAGE_SET_NBR, MESSAGE_NBR;
-- This will return messages that has been last update/added between 2 specific dates.

Menu Tables:

PSMENUDEFN: Store Menu related information. No related component info on this table.
PSMENUITEM: List the menu with all components attached to it.

Component Tables

PSPNLGRPDEFN: Stores component related information only.
PSPNLGROUP: This table will give you information regarding a specific component along with the names of pages attached to it.

Pages:

PSPNLDEFN: Stores pages definitions.

CASE PNLTYPE
        WHEN 0 THEN 'Page'
        WHEN 1 THEN 'Sub page'
        WHEN 2 THEN 'Secondary page'
        ELSE TO_CHAR(PNLTYPE)
    END CASE

PSPNLFIELD: Stores all items used by each page definition.

CASE FIELDTYPE
        WHEN 0 THEN 'Static Text'
        WHEN 1 THEN 'Frame'
        WHEN 2 THEN 'Group Box'
        WHEN 3 THEN 'Statis Image'
        WHEN 4 THEN 'Edit Box'
        WHEN 5 THEN 'Dropdown List'
        WHEN 6 THEN 'Long Edit Box'
        WHEN 7 THEN 'Check Box'
        WHEN 8 THEN 'Radio Button'
        WHEN 9 THEN 'Image'
        WHEN 10 THEN 'Scroll Bar'
        WHEN 11 THEN 'Subpage'
        WHEN 12 THEN 'Peoplecode Command - (Button/Hyperlink Destination)'
        WHEN 13 THEN 'Scroll Action - (Button/Hyperlink Destination)'
        WHEN 14 THEN 'Toolbar Action - (Button/Hyperlink Destination)'
        WHEN 15 THEN 'External Link - (Button/Hyperlink Destination)'
        WHEN 16 THEN 'Internal Link - (Button/Hyperlink Destination)'
        WHEN 17 THEN 'Process - (Button/Hyperlink Destination)'
        WHEN 18 THEN 'Secondary Page'
        WHEN 19 THEN 'Grid'
        WHEN 20 THEN 'Tree'
        WHEN 21 THEN 'Secondary Page - (Button/Hyperlink Destination)'
        WHEN 23 THEN 'Horizontal Rule'
        WHEN 24 THEN 'Tab Separator'
        WHEN 25 THEN 'Html Area'
        WHEN 26 THEN 'Prompt Action - (Button/Hyperlink Destination)'
        WHEN 27 THEN 'Scroll Area'
        WHEN 29 THEN 'Page Anchor'
        WHEN 30 THEN 'Chart'
        WHEN 31 THEN 'Push Button/Link'
        WHEN 32 THEN 'Analytic Grid'
        ELSE TO_CHAR(FIELDTYPE)
    END CASE

Security:

PSPRSMPERM: Portal Structure Permissions.
PSAUTHITEM: Page Permissions. This table stores the information about the page level access for a permission list.
PSAUTHPRCS Process Group Permissions. A many to many relationship table between Permission Lists and Process Groups. Setup can be found at PeopleTools > Security > Permissions & Roles > Process.
PSROLECLASS: Role Classes table. A many to many relationship table between Roles and Permission Lists.
PSROLEDEFN: This table stores information about Peoplesoft Role definitions. Users get permissions to PeopleSoft objects through Roles, which are assigned Permission Lists.
PSROLEUSER: This table stores information about the Users in Peoplesoft and the roles assigned to them.
PSCLASSDEFN: Permissions List definitions table. Permission list name can be found under Field Name CLASSID.
PSOPRDEFN: Users/Operator definition table. This table stores information about PeopleSoft users. This is the core table for User Profile Manager.
PSOPRCLS: Users/Operator and Perm list mapping Table. This table stores information about PeopleSoft users and the permission lists attached to those users.
A User gets these permission lists indirectly through the roles which are attached to the user
Here is an example query post that uses all of the above security tables!

URL Definitions:

PSURLDEFN: Stores URL definitions. Here is the path to create URL definitions in PeopleSoft Root >> PeopleTools >> Utilities >> Administration >> URLs

Application Classes:

PSAPPCLASSDEFN: Application Class Definitions table. You can use field PACKAGEROOT to search for a specific Application Package.

PeopleSoft Query Tables:

PSQRYDEFN: Stores query related info.
PSQRYFIELD: Stores all fields used in a query (both the fields in the Select and Where clause).
PSQRYCRITERIA: Stores criteria query fields. You can get the name of the fields by joining the PSQRYFIELD table.
PSQRYEXPR: Stores query expressions.
PSQRYBIND: Stores query bind variables.
PSQRYRECORD: Stores all records used in all aspects of query creation
PSQRYSELECT: Stores all SELECT requirements by select type. Example would be sub select, join, ect.
PSQRYLINK: Stores the relationships to child queries.
PSQRYEXECLOG: Query run time log table that stores (only 8.4x and higher)
PSQRYSTATS: Query run time statistics table such as count of query execution, and date time of last execution (only in 8.4x and higher).

SQL Objects:

PSSQLDEFN: Stores SQL object definitions.
PSSQLDESCR: Stores SQL objects descriptions, and description long.
PSSQLTEXTDEFN: Stores actual SQL text. You can filter by SQLTYPE field to get SQL objects of interest such as Views SQLs and Application Engine SQLs.

-- When SQL type is:
0 = Stand alone SQL objects
1 = Application engine SQL
2 = Views SQLs

Application Engines:

PSAEAPPLDEFN: Table that stores Application Engine program definitions.
PSAEAPPLSTATE: Stores application engine STATE records and a flag to indicate if the record is the default STATE record.
PSAESECTDEFN: Application engine section information and also stores last user id to update a specific section.
PSAESECTDTLDEFN: AE section along with descriptions and wither the section is active or not.
PSAEAPPLTEMPTBL: If your application engine uses Temp tables it will show on this record.
PSAESTEPDEFN: Steps in application engines are stored in this table.
PSAESTMTDEFN: Stores your application engine actions and along with their types, such as "Do Select" and so on.
PSAESTEPMSGDEFN: Application engine message action definition table.
AEREQUESTTBL: Application Engine request table behind the AE run control page.
AEREQUESTPARM: Application Engine request parameters table behind the AE run control page.

PeopleCode Tables:

PSPCMNAME: PeopleCode Reference table.
PSPCMPROG: Store actual PeopleCode programs (actual code behind PeopleCode events).

Process Request Tables:

PSPRCSQUE: This record contains the process request information to run a process request.
PSPRCSRQST: This record contains the process request information to run a process request.
PS_PMN_PRCSLIST: A view to list all process requests in the Process Monitor except for "Delete" (runstatus = 2) process requests.

XML Publisher:

PSXPDATASRC: XMLP Data Source Definition
PSXPRPTCAT: XMLP Report Category
PSXPRPTDEFN: XMLP Report Definition
PSXPRPTOUTFMT: XMLP Report Output Format
PSXPRPTSCOPEFLD: XMLP Report Scope Definition
PSXPRPTSRCHKEYS: XMLP Report Definition Search Keys
PSXPRPTTMPL: XMLP report-template relation
PSXPRPTTMPLCTRL: XMLP Rpt Template Control Table
PSXPRPTVIEWER: XMLP Report Viewer Table
PSXPTMPLDEFN: XMLP Template Definition
PSXPTMPLFILEDEF: XMLP Template File Definition
PSXPTMPLOUTFMT: XMLP Template/Out format defn
PSXPTMPLTRINFO: XMLP Template Translation Info
PSXPTMPLTYPE: Template Type Definition

3C Tables:

PS_COMM_CA_CTX_TBL: is where you associate specific contexts of communication with a general category.
PS_COMM_CATG_TBL: is where you create general categories of communication for your institution. Each category is associated with one Administrative Function. A category may be associated with one or more Inquiry Groups for access privileges.
PS_COMM_CTX_ME_TBL: is where you associate different contexts of communication with the possible methods of delivery (letter, telephone, in person, e-mail, fax, etc.) as well as the possible directions of delivery (incoming, outgoing, in person).
PS_COMM_CTXT_TBL: is where you create the specific instances of incoming, outgoing, or in person communication that you would like to track at your institution.
PS_COMM_GRP_3C_TBL: is where you specify which 3C Groups have viewing and/or entry privileges to certain Communication Categories.
PS_COMM_SPDKEY_TBL: is used to create a combination of Communication Category, Context, Method, and Direction with one key. Communication Keys created in this table are used to generate communications in background processes either when associated with Checklist Items or when used in the Communication Generation process.
PS_SCC_CG_CUST_DTA: stores the sequence and type of custom data to be included in the XML Publisher Data Source.
PS_SCC_CG_GEN_DTA: stores the record name and Critical Data indicator of the record to be included in the XML Publisher Data Source.
PS_SCC_CG_DTASRC: stores information that maps directly to the XML Publisher Data Source table.
PS_EVNT_3CS_TBL: Used to store the event definition used for generating Communications, Checklists and Comments
PS_EVNT_COMM_TBL: Communication
PS_SCC_CG_XMLP_RPT: This table stores the link(s) between the XML Publisher Report Definition(s) and the Student Administration Letter Code.
PS_SCC_STN_LTR_TBL: houses the codes for standard letters
PSXPDATASRC: Datasource definition table for XML

Other Useful Tables:

PSSTATUS: Stores PeopleSoft information such as PS Tools release version and the UNICODE_ENABLED boolean flag where a value of 1 indicates the DB is to be treated by Tools as a UNICODE DB.
PSCHGCTLLOCK: Description as explained by PeopleSoft "This table contains a a row for every object that is currently locked by any user. When the user requests to lock an object in the Application Designer, first this table is searched to see if the object is locked by another user. If it is not found, a row is inserted into the table. When the user requests to unlock an object, the row in this table is deleted."

PSMAPFIELD: Stores Field mapping of Activity
PS_PRCSRUNCNTL: Run Control record stores Run Control IDs created online.

Tree Tables:

PSTREEDEFN Stores valid tree definitions. Updated by the Tree Manager. Non English stored in PSTREEDEFNLANG.

PSTREENODE Contains one entry per tree node / deptid. Defines relationships between nodes. Updated by the Tree Manager.

PSTREEBRANCH Stores tree branches.

PSTREESTRCT Defines the different records and fields that control the tree attributes. Updated by the Tree Manager.

PSTREELEVEL Validation table for tree levels. Updated by Tree Manager.

PS_ACCESS_GRP_TBL Stores defined Access Groups. Used for Query Security

PSTREESELCTL Control table for PSTREESELECT## tables. Also: PSTREESELNUM.

PSTREESELECT01-30 Stores tree leaf information (one table for every possible length of a chart field 1-30 characters). Work table for optimization purposes.

PSTREELEAF Contains ranges of field values that are associated with a node of a tree.

PSTREEPROMPT (Specific to 8.x and up only) Stores similar information as PSTREEDEFN and is needed for trees to be viewed through PIA

Parent/Child relationship: The range of nodes from PSTREENODE.TREE_NODE_NUM to TREE_NODE_NUM_END represents all the nodes in the sub-tree headed by this node. So the Tree Manager uses these fields to determine parent-child relationships.

Tree_Node_Num The node number of this node. Tree_Node_Num_End The node number of the last child of this node. The range of nodes from Tree_Node_Num through Tree_Node_Num_End represents all the nodes in the sub-tree headed by this node.