topic Re: *TABLE Vs TABLE in Application Development and Automation Discussions

*TABLE Vs TABLE

Former Member — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:46:07 GMT

Hi folks,

What is the diffrence between *TABLE and TABLE workareas(where 'TABLE' can be any sap table) . Can u explain me a SCENARIO where we can use this method..??

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Ram

Re: *TABLE Vs TABLE

Former Member — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:48:02 GMT

*TABLE is obsolete now ..

chk this ..

tables : mara , *mara.

select single * from mara into *mara where matnr eq p_matnr.

Message was edited by:

Chandrasekhar Jagarlamudi

Re: *TABLE Vs TABLE

RichHeilman — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:48:57 GMT

There is really no difference, they are both work areas with the same structure, just two different memory areas. This was the old way of declaring work areas, for example, the *TABLE could hold old data, and the TABLE would how the most recent data during a transaction.

Anyway, don't use either, use DATA statements.

Regards,

RIch Heilman

Re: *TABLE Vs TABLE

Former Member — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:57:27 GMT

Is this kind of declaration same as declaring two work areas using the same table structure.

Ex. data: wa1 type mara.

wa2 type mara.

Ragards,

Ram

Re: *TABLE Vs TABLE

aakash_neelaperumal2 — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:02:52 GMT

*mara creates a structure of the type Mara and works like a work area where as Mara can be used in select endselect statment and can hold more than one row.

Re: *TABLE Vs TABLE

RichHeilman — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:05:49 GMT

Yes, that's all it is, it would be the same as using DATA statements.

data:  wa_tab1 type ztab.
data:  wa_tab2 type ztab.

Regards,

Rich Heilman