Select Statement + constant

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I have a simply question. I have experience with microsoft SQL.

Can i use in ABAP SQL something else

SELECT column1 column2 'ABC'

FROM ...

INTO ....

'ABC' - some constant

Thanks for advice in advance

Martin

[Former Member]

Hi,

No,You can't use constants, use only the Fields that are present in the Table in the Select statement in ABAP.

Regards,

Anji

[Former Member]

Hello Martin,

Only u can select the fields from the table.

In ur case u can do like this:

SELECT column1 column2 column3
FROM ...
INTO ....
where column3 = 'ABC'   "  CHECK HERE

Vasanth

[Former Member]

HI Martin

In select statement the fields should be in the table from which we are retrieving the data , and u need to give the names of fields only in that syntax , u can not use other than the fields of that table ,it will give a syntax error in this case.

[Former Member]

Hi Martin,

As u are aware that, Select statement is basically used to get data from Database tables u cant select constants from it as u need to specify the fields names which u want to select from the DBtable.

Use

Select * from dbtable into corresponding fields of table itab.

Regards,

Priyanka.

[Former Member]

hi,

this wont work because u have to specify only the fields present in the table that is in the from clause.

regards.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Can you explain ur requirement?

Why wull you have constants as fields in tables

are you looking for this

tables mara.

select single matnr  from mara into mara-matnr where matnr eq 'ABC'.