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 →
The ideal situation for any software is that it processes instantly, as close to instantaneously as feasible. In-Memory database concept was a revolution in the field of software dealing with large databases as it has always been the biggest point... 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 S/4 HANA, Sales And Distribution have been vastly simplified. It has been incorporated into S/4 HANA Line Of Business (LOB) which has a distinct perspective on the master and transactional data and how it is handled in SAP. The... Continue Reading →
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