Attributes make up the four entities used in DQM: Party, Address, Contact, and Contact Point. Each attribute in the entities is derived from a specific column in one of the TCA Registry tables. These four entities make up the staged schema.

For example, the Party entity in DQM is named HZ_STAGED_PARTIES and contains attributes from the TCA Registry tables:

• HZ_PARTIES

• HZ_ORGANIZATION_PROFILES

• HZ_PERSON_PROFILES

Examples of attributes in the Party entity include:

• PARTY_NUMBER from HZ_PARTIES

• DUNS_NUMBER from HZ_ORGANIZATION_PROFILES

• MARITAL_STATUS from HZ_PERSON_PROFILES

Attributes in the staged schema contain values from the TCA Registry tables that have been transformed into representations that are more alike for the purposes of matching. Attributes, therefore, are used to search for possible matches between an input record and the TCA Registry data.

If needed, you can use up to 30 CUSTOM_ATTRIBUTE columns in each entity to store additional attributes. See: Creating Custom Attributes and Seeded Attributes, Oracle Trading Community Architecture Reference Guide.