Table View Select using Date Range Performance

[Former Member]

Hello,

I'm Basis...Know a little ABAP. Our programmer is overloaded from our current 5.0 upgrade. He has a view (VBAP, VBAK, and VBUK). He is selecting several fields from this view and there is one obligatory field ERDAT. When I enter a single date, the report runs in a few seconds. The problem is when I enter a range (even if it is the same date) it uses the <Between> logic and the job runs for several minutes. Is there a way to improve performance selecting from this view using a date range? Why the big difference with the single ERDAT VS. the ERDAT with the range?

Thanks,

Phil Stracener

[RichHeilman]

I have seen this behavior a number of times. I big part of it may be the fact that ERDAT is not part of the key and that it is not referenced in any index.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member]

as ERDAT is select option why dont u use IN S_ERDAT instead of <between> logic.

select * from view where erdat in s_erdat.

this may not solve ur prob but small hint

[RichHeilman]

The select-option will still use the BT functionality internally.

Regards,

RIch Heilman

[Former Member]

ERDAT is part of the index - but for VBAK, not VBAP. Make sure the select is on VBAK-ERDAT. But the BETWEEN may still be slow.

Rob

[Former Member]

The ST05 Trace shows that it's using the correct custom index that has ERDAT in it. He is using VBAK-ERDAT in the view. I'm puzzled... Is this just working as designed?

Thanks,

Philip Stracener

[Former Member]

Does the custom index have VBAK-ERDAT or VBAP-ERDAT?

Which ERDAT is used in the select?

Rob

[Former Member]

It's using VBAK-ERDAT.

Thanks,

Phil

[Former Member]

Hi Phillip,

We are having the exact same issue of a single date vs. a date range...

Did you resolve it?

Please suggest...

Thanks