The document discusses relational databases and how they organize data into tables that can be accessed and reassembled in different ways without reorganizing the tables, it also covers how PeopleSoft uses a 3-tier architecture called PeopleSoft Internet Architecture (PIA) consisting of a web browser, web server, application server and database server to deliver pure internet applications to users. PIA provides advantages over traditional client/server architectures like thin clients, improved performance, and the ability to scale more easily to meet increasing user demands.

1. Data Organization
Presenter
PeopleSoft Technical Guru

2. Relational Databases
• A relational database is a collection of data
items organized as a set of formallydescribed tables from which data can be
accessed or reassembled in many different
ways without having to reorganize the
database tables.
• It stores all its data inside tables, and nothing
more. All operations on data are done on the
tables themselves or produces another tables
as the result.

3. Relational Databases
• Table Structure
• A table is a set of rows and columns.
• It has a set of tables containing data fitted into predefined
categories.
• Each table (which is sometimes called a relation) contains
one or more data categories in columns. Each row
contains a unique instance of data for the categories
defined by the columns.

4. Relational Databases
• Normalization
• Normalization is the process of efficiently
organizing data in a database.
• Advantages of the normalization process
• Eliminating redundant data (for example, storing the
same data in more than one table)
• Ensuring data dependencies make sense (only storing
related data in a table).

5. Relational Databases
• Key Fields
• Key fields uniquely identify each row of data on a
relational database table.
• If there can be only one ID per student, then the key
would be STUDENT_ID on the
PSU_STUDENT_TBL.
• If a student can have more than one recorded skill and
more than one degree, then we would need two
additional tables, each with STUDENT_ID as a key
plus at least one more key field to uniquely identify
rows of data.

6. Relational Databases
• Parent Child Tables
• During normalization, the breakdown of data based on a
single field that occurs multiple times indicates a
parent/child relationship .
• The table holding basic Student information and the tables
constructed to hold data about a Student’s Experience and
a Student’s Educational background represent parent/child
relationships.
• A child table must have all the key fields of the
parent table in the same order plus at least one
additional key field.

7. Relational Databases
• Parent Child Tables

8. Data Model
• It is a diagram of the underlying database tables and their
relationships.
• It is often helpful to have a map illustrating the
various tables and their interrelationships

9. Relational Database, Metadata
and PeopleSoft
SYSOBJECTS
SYSCOLUMNS
PSRECDEFN
PSPNLDEFN
PS_PSU_STUDENT_TBL
PS_PSU_INSTR_TBL

10. Relational Database, Metadata
and PeopleSoft
• System Catalog
• System catalog tables are analogous to a table of contents
for a book, or to File
Allocation Tables on a hard drive. The structure and table
names vary depending on
which RDBMS is being used, but the function is the same.
The system catalog tables
keep track of all of the objects that reside in the database
instance, including non - PeopleSoft systems
e.g. SYSOBJECTS, SYSCOLUMNS

11. Relational Database, Metadata
and PeopleSoft
•
PeopleTools Tables
•
PeopleTools tables hold metadata about the PeopleSoft application that is installed on
the
database.
The PeopleTools tables contain the structure that the applications use to define the user
interface. The structure of the tables is the same for all applications. Each application
enters data into the PeopleTools tables when it is installed.
PSDBFIELD - fields in application data tables
PSRECDEFN - application data table s, indexes, views
PSPNLDEFN - Values used to generate the HTML pages received by
the browser
PSPRSDEFN - Contents of the portal registry, which builds the user
navigation
PSXLATITEM - Values used to validate data for specific fields

12. Relational Database, Metadata
and PeopleSoft
• Application Data Tables
• The Application Data tables contain data entered for use
by your
organization. The specific tables and their structure are
determined by the application
installed or by the definitions you create as a part of your
development
• The naming convention used for Application Data tables is
PS_*.
e.g.
PS_PSU_STUDENT_TBL
PS_PSU_INSTR_TBL

13. Query Analyzer
•
SQL “SELECT” Syntax
•
SELECT [COLUMNS] FROM [TABLE_NAME]
•
SELECT [COLUMNS] FROM [TABLE_NAME] WHERE [COLUMN1] =
[CONDITION]
•
SELECT [COLUMNS] FROM [TABLE_NAME] WHERE [COLUMN1] =
[CONDITION] ORDER BY [COLUMNS] [DESC/ASC]
•
•
SELECT [COLUMNS],GROUP FUNCTIONS FROM
[TABLE_NAME] WHERE [COLUMN1] = [CONDITION] GROUP BY
[COLUMNS]
Group Functions – Max/Min/Count/Sum
•

14. Query Analyzer
• SQL INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE Syntax
• INSERT INTO [TABLE_NAME] [COLUMNS]
VALUES[VALUE1,VALUE2…]
• UPDATE [TABLE_NAME] SET [COLUMN] = [VALUE]
WHERE [COLUMN1] = [CONDITION]
• DELETE FROM [TABLE_NAME] WHERE [COLUMN1] =
[CONDITION]

15. Query Analyzer
Online Page Action
Command
Resulting SQL
Retrieve data from the search page in an Update mode.
SELECT
Use the Add action to add a new search key to a control table
INSERT
Use Alt + 7 (Row Insert) to add a row with an existing search key to a
INSERT
transaction tab le in an Update mode.
Save a page.
COMMIT
Use Alt + 8 (Row Delete) in an Update mode.
DELETE
Undo changes if errors occur during PeopleCode processing at Save
time
ROLLBACK
Modify data on existing rows in an Update mode
UPDATE

16. PIA – Peoplesoft Internet Architecture

17. PeopleSoft Internet Architecture
(2 TIER Connectivity)
Database Server
Client
ODBC CONNECTIVITY

18. PeopleSoft Internet Architecture
(2 TIER Connectivity)
• Advantages
• Simpler architecture requiring only client
workstation and database server components to
be installed.
• System administrators are not required to invest
time learning application server administration.
• No need to consider purchasing either an
additional machine or upgrading an existing
machine to use as an application server.

19. PeopleSoft Internet Architecture:
Definition
• PIA stands for PeopleSoft Internet Architecture.
• It is the runtime architecture used to deploy and
execute
• the pure Internet applications of PeopleSoft 8. Its
called pure since it follows the thin client model
• Executes the applications built with PeopleTools
development environment.

20. Features of PIA
•
•
•
•
Pure Internet
Server-centric
Component-centric
Four-tier Architecture

21. Advantages of PIA Over
Client/Server
• Thin Client:
– No executables on the client side – Low Cost
– No Processing at client side
• Network Protocol – The protocol used is HTTP
• Security - SSL security can be implemented in
PIA

22. PeopleSoft Internet Architecture
(3 TIER Connectivity)

23. PeopleSoft Internet Architecture
(3 TIER Connectivity)
• Advantages
• Reduced network traffic.
• Improved WAN performance.
• Reduced maintenance of client workstation configuration,
since database connectivity is not required on the client.
• Enabling Web Client connections
• Ability to scale the system, as needed, to meet rising user
demands by reconfiguring application servers, by installing
application server(s) on more powerful machines, and by
using multiple application servers

24. Web Browser
• Uses HTTP protocol
• Receives only:
– HTML / XML
– Java script
– Cookie
Browse
r
HTTP/HTTPS
Web
server
Jolt/Tuxedo
Application
server
DB
SQL
server

25. Web Server
• Web services – HTTP, XML, SOAP, WSDL, and
UDDI
• Servlet Engine
• Java Servlets:
–
–
–
–
Page Servlets: Content Retrieval and Page Assembly
Portal Servlets: Content Retrieval and Page Assembly
Integration Gateway Servlets: Listener Connectors
Report Repository Servlets
Browser
HTTP/HTTPS
Web
Server
Jolt/Tuxedo
Application
Server
SQL
DB
Server

26. Web Server (Contd.)
This figure depicts the PIA architecture.
• Client request are made through the web browser.
• These requests move to the Web Server
• From the Webserver the request is passed to the
Application server which communicates with the
database.
•The response to request follows the reverse path

27. Application Server
• It is the “Heart” of PIA - contains all application logic /
HTML / XML generation
• Supports Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
integration
LDAP
Browser
HTTP/HTTPS
Web Server
Jolt/Tuxedo
Applicatio
n Server
SQL
DB Server

28. Application Server Domain
• Collection of server processes, supporting
processes, and resource managers
• A domain advertises a set of “services” (such as
build a page and save a page)
• Process scheduler also built around “domains”
• You can have more than one domain per machine
(server)
• Each domain only connects to one database.
• Multiple domains can connect to the same
database.

29. Application Server Domain (Contd.)
Example: One domain on one application server machine.
APPLICATION
APPLICATION
SERVER
SERVER
BROWSER
BROWSER
WEB
WEB
SERVER
SERVER
HR
HR
Domain
Domain
HR
HR
Database
Database

30. Application Server Domain (Contd.)
APPLICATION
APPLICATION
SERVER
SERVER
FS
FS
Domain
Domain
BROWSER
BROWSER
WEB
WEB
SERVER
SERVER
HR
HR
Domain
Domain
FS
FS
Database
Database
HR
HR
Database
Database

31. Application Server Domain (Contd.)
• Domain: Collection of server processes, supporting
processes, and resource managers
• Server Processes – Manages different types of requests that
reach the application server
• Tuxedo/JOLT – Jolt provides the connection between the Web
Server and App server. Tuxedo is BEA software that gears the
PS App Server

32. Application Server Domain (Contd.)

33. Database Server
• Consists of application data and metadata
• Contains three types of PeopleSoft tables:
– System Catalog Tables
– PeopleTools Tables
– Application Data Tables
Browser
HTTP/HTTPS
Web
Server
Jolt/Tuxedo
Application
server
SQL
DB
Server

34. Batch Server (Process Scheduler)
Batch Server
RDBMS
Browser
Web Server
App Server SQL
• Components of Process Scheduler:
– Process Scheduler Server Agent
– Distributed Agent
The Process Scheduler is used to schedule the
processes in PeopleSoft. It can be consider as a
part of the Application Server and communicates
with the DB directly.

35. Logging in PIA
• Sign In
• User Id
• Password
• Navigate to a Component
• Page Layout
• Header
• Menu Pagelet
• Target Area
• Searching Through PIA

36. PIA URL
Web
Server
PS Portal
Servlet
Portal
Menu
Node
App Server
Domain
Ref
Type
Component

37. Hot Keys

38. Access Keys

39. Question???