Wednesday, 24 June 2020

The ABAP Data Dictionary

Here is a guide to using tables, we use this within our internal courses, I haven’t run one for some time with the lockdown in the UK, but I share it here for the benefit of others in this wider SAP community.

Tables can be defined independent of the database in ABAP Dictionary. When a table is activated in ABAP Dictionary, a similar copy of its fields is created in the database as well. The tables defined in ABAP Dictionary are then translated automatically into the format that is compatible with the database, because the definition of the table depends on the database used by the SAP system.