What is a check table and What is a value table?

The relational data model contains not only tables, but also relationships between tables.These relationships are defined in the ABAP/4 Dictionary by foreign keys. An importantfunction of foreign keys is to support data integrity in the relational data model. Foreignkey fields may assume only those values allowed by the check table, in other words,values occurring in … Read more

What is a check table and What is a value table?

The relational data model contains not only tables, but also relationships between tables.These relationships are defined in the ABAP/4 Dictionary by foreign keys. An importantfunction of foreign keys is to support data integrity in the relational data model. Foreignkey fields may assume only those values allowed by the check table, in other words,values occurring in … Read more

What is a variant and where do you use it?

If you want to run a report program with same selections at regular intervals (forexample, for monthly sales statistics), you would not want to enter the same values eachtime. So, ABAP/4 offers you a possibility to combine the desired values for all theseselections in one selection set. You can create as many different selection sets … Read more