Scenario: An ALV list is generated depicting the last 10 sales orders created by the user. If the user wants to repeat the same order, the user would select one of the orders and process to create a sales order... Continue Reading →
While READ statement is valid, ABAP has opened a new approach to fetching values from the internal table based on conditions. This is a more simplistic approach aiming at compact coding. Reading a table with index can be simplified as... Continue Reading →
Expanding on the subject last touched upon, following are a few more examples of how data declarations have been updated. For a method, originally parameters would have to be individually declared prior to usage. Any change in the method of... Continue Reading →
Consider a select with 10 fields out of a list of 30. The standard approach is to declare a Type, define an internal table or work area based on that Type and populate the internal table or work area in... Continue Reading →
Optimizing Custom ABAP code for HANA upgrade can be visualized as a three-act structure - Detect, Optimize and Innovate. What Needs Optimization? Before HANA implementation/migration, an assessment on current code needs to be made in order to understand which objects... Continue Reading →
The first thing we understand about SAP HANA is that with advanced hardware capabilities the programming model can accommodate data processing at the database level. This means all data processing developers used to do in SAP by pulling data to... Continue Reading →
While dealing with OData JSON format, sometimes users come across a number in following shape - 1532696073 - which is confusing as they are expecting a date/timestamp. This is Epoch/Unix/POSIX time format which is an alternate approach to display date... Continue Reading →
While in SAP HANA, both Row-based data storage and Column-based data storage is used, Column-based data storage is widely used for transactional data upon which analytical applications are implemented. This is because in Column-based data storage information is juxtaposed next... Continue Reading →
In a standard course of development, extracting an XML into SAP is not ideal. Most of the interfaces involve PI which is more adept and accurate in handling XML files and pass the data in a structure. On the other... Continue Reading →
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