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    ABAP Trial Version for Newbies Part 15: How to Dynamically Create Test Data for Our Database Table

    Since you have to test an application to see if it works, and since you only can test it, when you have some test data, what we are doing here is an essential step: In this weblog of our series we will fill the database table YACCOUNT we have created...

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    ABAP Trial Version for Newbies Part 14: The Foundation of an Application - Creating the Database Tables

    This weblog  is about building and managing the basics of any business application: The database table(s). With the ABAP declarative approach of the Data Dictionary these things are so easy that you can concentrate on your data model and leave all ...

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    ABAP Trial Version for Newbies Part 11: Getting More Familiar With the ABAP Dictionary

    In this weblog of our series we will improve the program from the last ABAP Trial Version for Newbies Part 10: A First Little Business Program and show you some other useful features of ABAP and the development environment provided by the NetWeaver...

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    ABAP Trial Version for Newbies Part 10: A First Little Business Program

    Now it is time to write a program that does something more than just output "Hello World". In weblog 7 of our series  we have done the necessary preparatory work, that is, we have created a transportable package for all our programs and a program wit...

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    ABAP Trial Version for Newbies Part 7: Creating a Program and a Package - An Introduction to the SAP Change and Transport System

    This weblog is about how to create a transportable package, how to create a program within this package, and how to get the connection to the integrated software logistics of the server, the SAP Change and Transport System (CTS) right from the begi...

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    Is ABAP Sexy?

    Disclaimer   Although I have this little blue logo besides my name, this blog does not contain any official SAP statements. It contains just some of those thoughts that come into your mind when you are doing the weekly Saturday morning vacuum c...

    ABAP Trial Version for Newbies: Part 4 - Many Developers On One Central Server - How Does It Work

    In the last weblog I have explained some basics about the ABAP server: Let us now combine what I have explained about the three-layer architecture of the server and the fact that developers in general develop on a central ABAP server in real-world ...

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    ABAP Trial Version for Newbies: Part 3 - Why and How the Server Matters to You as a Developer: Server Architecture and Work Processes

    Usually as a developer in a language like C or C++ you need not care so much about the server. It might only matter to you if your program should run on a server in the end. When you are developing in ABAP things are different in this regard. In th...

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    ABAP Trial and ABAP Book

    HistoryIn the years before 2000, when I started on writing the first ABAP Objects book - ABAP Objects - An Introduction to Programming SAP Applications, I often dreamt of a small version of the former SAP Basis that would be freely available to a bro...

    1000+ Pages full of ABAP

    At last printed: The English Version of SAP Press' bestselling book "ABAP Objects - ABAP Programming in SAP NetWeaver" - the ideal companion to the SAP NetWeaver 2004s ABAP Trial Version. As proof, here it is on my desk: A glimpse at the contents...

    Something's Coming

    From the preface: "This book is the sequel to ABAP Objects: An Introduction to Programming SAP Applications from the SAP PRESS series. Instead of producing a reworked third edition of the Introduction, we have written a new book ... In this book, ...