Category Archives: ABAP

Articles on ABAP programming will be useful for both ABAP developers and SAP consultants. I will analyze both ABAP from scratch and the new syntax of ABAP 7.4 and 7.5. I will describe in detail the technical details that I encountered and how I solved them. I will also try to help consultants look beyond ABAP development in order to better understand how everything works. Subcategories:

FOR ALL ENTRIES in SELECT ABAP: Examples, Checks and Alternatives

FOR ALL ENTRIES in SELECT ABAP is not new ABAP syntax, but it is still one of the most important Open SQL techniques for reading database records by values from an internal table ABAP. ABAP developers often use it when they already have a list of keys in memory and need to select related data from another SAP table.

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ABAP VALUE with FOR: Build Internal Tables in the New Syntax

ABAP VALUE with FOR is one of the most useful features of new ABAP syntax for developers who work with internal tables. It helps you create a new internal table ABAP from existing data, filter rows, and map one table structure to another table structure in a compact way. Instead of writing a long LOOP AT block with APPEND, you can express the result directly.

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