abap query

[Former Member]

What are the advantages and disadvantages of ABAP/4 query tool?

and in which situations we will use them......

[Former Member]

Advantage is without coding you will get a report. You can join as many table as possible, take as many as fields of sifferent table as selection screen and can show as many as fields in the output display. You can get a list display, a word output or a graphical output. It also takes very lesser time to get the report. Used by the functional people generally.

Disadvantages, complex reports where data selection are bit complex and you want to do a lott of calculation of the selected values before displaying and want to add some complex conditions or formula, in such case ABAP QUERY may not solve your purpose.

[Former Member]

Hi

It will be used by most of the functional consultants who can get a report like thing without coding the code.

see the doc

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/35/26b413afab52b9e10000009b38f974/content.htm

http://www.thespot4sap.com/Articles/SAP_ABAP_Queries_Introduction.asp

Step-by-step guide for creating ABAP query

http://www.sappoint.com/abap/ab4query.pdf

ABAP query is mostly used by functional consultants.

SAP Query

Purpose

The SAP Query application is used to create lists not already contained in the SAP standard system. It has been designed for users with little or no knowledge of the SAP programming language ABAP. SAP Query offers users a broad range of ways to define reporting programs and create different types of reports such as basic lists, statistics, and ranked lists.

Features

SAP Query's range of functions corresponds to the classical reporting functions available in the system. Requirements in this area such as list, statistic, or ranked list creation can be met using queries.

All the data required by users for their lists can be selected from any SAP table created by the customer.

To define a report, you first have to enter individual texts, such as titles, and select the fields and options which determine the report layout. Then you can edit list display in WYSIWYG mode whenever you want using drag and drop and the other toolbox functions available.

ABAP Query, as far as I Believe, is the use of select statements in the ABAP Programming. This needs a knowledge of Open SQL commands like Select,UPdtae, Modify etc. This has to be done only by someone who has a little bit of ABAP experience.

To sum up, SAP queries are readymade programs given by SAP, which the user can use making slight modification like the slection texts, the tables from which the data is to be retrieved and the format in which the data is to be displayed.ABAP queries become imperative when there is no such SAP query existing and also when there is a lot of customizing involved to use a SAP Query directly

use either SQ02 ans SQ01

or SQVI tr code

for more information please go thru this url:

http://www.thespot4sap.com/Articles/SAP_ABAP_Queries_Create_The_Query.asp

http://goldenink.com/abap/sap_query.html

Please check this PDF document (starting page 352) perhaps it will help u.

http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCSRVQUE/BCSRVQUE.pdf

check the below link will be helpful for u

once you create query system generates a report starting with AQZZ/SAPQUERY/ABAGENCY2======= assing this report to tr code for the same

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