SAP ABAP - Standard Internal Table (Index Table) With Example
Submitted By: Shilpa Gunjan (L&T Infotech) - Standard tables have linear index. - Standard table is accessed either via an index or a key. And always remember the key of a standard table is always non-unique. If no key is specified, the standard table takes a default key which is a combination of all the character like fields. - Records can be accessed through both Index and Conditions. READ TABLE it_itab INTO wa_itab INDEX ind_no. OR READ TABLE it_itab INTO wa_itab WITH KEY condition. Here the it_itab can be sorted. Accessing and searching time for the record depends on the number of records because searching is either linear or binary (when we explicitly use BINARY SEARCH keyword in READ statement). - If a standard table is accessed using a key, then the response time is in linear relationship to the number of table entries. For example, if there are 10 rows in a table and I want to process the 7th row, then the search is row by row in this case. He...