Table declaration in Standard Program

[Former Member]

Hi to all,

I just want to know that I have seen in the standard program the declaration of table in the following way.

TABLES: bkdf,

bkpf,

*bkpf.

then what is this *bkpf means.

Thanks

Dharmishta

[Former Member]

Hi Dharmishta,

Similar to the concept of a work area for an internal table, we have a *bkpf work area for a database table bkpf.

When the standard programs are running, they transfer the selected record contents into this *<table> structure for processing and hence avoid the selecting of data into an internal table and then again transferring to work area for processing.

Cheers,

Aditya

[Former Member]

HI,

*bkpf means

This means that all database changes are made irrevocable and cannot be reversed with ROLLBACK WORK ... PBUKRS LIKE BKPF-BUKRS , PKTOPL LIKE ZGLGRP-KTOPL. ...

regards,

sreelakshmi.

[Former Member]

Hi Dharmishta,

It suggests that it will take all these table into account. ARIX_BKPF

BKPF

EBKPF

TXW_S_BKPF

VBKPF

VIAKBKPF

Thanks

Mohinder Singh Chauhan

[Former Member]

hi ,

hope it useful for u..

the thing is it s like a work area for an table itself.. we dont want to define an work area for table (ekpo) like (wa_ekpo).. just we put *ekpo.. SAP internally make a work area of type the standard tab le.. here with i attach a piece of code...

tables:  ekpo , *ekpo.


select single * from ekpo into  *ekpo.
if sy-subrc eq 0.

        write : / *ekpo-ebeln.
   endif.

..

regards,

Karthik