Internal Tables - Introduction & Types Of Internal Tables With Sample Programs.
Submitted By: Shilpa Gunjan (L&T Infotech) - Internal table is a temporary table created in RAM of Application Server while runtime which can be used to do operation on the data while processing. - The contents of a database table can be copied to an internal table at runtime, so that the internal table is a snapshot of a database table and can then be used as a working copy of the data within the program. In short, internal tables can be used as containers for volatile data in a program. - The database tables are been used across so many sap standard programs. We cannot directly play around with them. In order to avoid that as per the requirement of the program we go for the concept of internal tables during the program execution and use the internal tables and take the required data from the database table and then we can always play around with the data in the internal table. It is just like when you go the any supermarket, you take a basket (internal table) a...