Difference between Reports, Transactions and Scripts?

[Former Member]

hi,

what are the differnces between them?

thanx,

nave

[Former Member]

Hi Naveen,

<b>Report</b> is basically a program which extracts the data from the database tables based on some inputs and gives the output as a list.

Report are classified as Classical Reports, Interactive Reports and ALV Report.

Classical Report is a normal report which just displays the output.User cannot interact with that report.

Interactive Report is nothing but, a user can interacte with the report.After a basic list is displayed, user can click on some field on the list which generates a secondary list giving the necessary information relevant to that field.

ALV Report is to provide users with a consistent, user friendly and functional method of manipulating the data, which appears on report lists. ALV provides more advantages than the normal report.

<b>Transaction</b> is a sequence of sql statements that are handled by the database system as a basic unit, in the sense that any modifications made to the database by the sql statements are either all reflected in the state of the database, or else none of the database modifications are retained.

The first transaction is opened when a database session is opened with the CONNECT statement. The transaction is concluded with the COMMIT statement or the ROLLBACK statement. When a transaction is successfully concluded with a commit statement, all of the changes to the database are retained. If a transaction is aborted using a rollback statement, on the other hand, or if it is aborted in another way, all of the changes to the database made by the transaction are rolled back.

Both the COMMIT and ROLLBACK statements open a new transaction implicitly.

<b>SAP scripts</b> is a word processing tool of SAP which has the following components: Standard text. It is like a standard normal documents. Layout sets. - Layout set consists of the following components: Windows and pages, Paragraph formats, Character formats. Creating forms in the R/3 system. Every layout set consists of Header, paragraph, and character string. ABAP/4 program.

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Thanks

Aneesh.

[Former Member]

Hi

Reports:

Used to display the existing data from the database tables for the analysis purpose

Transactions: Mainly used to update the DB tables

and used to display/create/change the business application documents

SAP is full of transactions which consists of screens

SCRIPTS:

They are the Outgoing documents from an orgn to the outside Partners like vendors and Customers.

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Anji