The vocabulary, once

Nine words, said plainly once, so the rest of the course can use them without stopping. A POD is the physical Oracle-managed stack your instance runs on. You do not administer it and you cannot log into it. A TENANT is your slice of it, and an ENVIRONMENT is one named instance — production, test, development. Most estates have two or three and they are refreshed from each other. P2T is "production to test": a copy of production over the top of a test environment. It is the single most disruptive routine operation in this list, because it overwrites everything anybody had in the target. Module 16 is about surviving it. FBDI is File-Based Data Import — a spreadsheet template you fill, convert to CSV and upload, for bulk loading almost anything outside HCM. HDL is HCM Data Loader, the equivalent for people data, and it is a different mechanism…

In this module: Module 0 · Orientation

1. 1How this course works
2. 2Getting an environment you can break
3. 3Where technical work sits in an implementation
4. 4The vocabulary, once