ABAP Glossary

ABAP Workbench (BC-DWB)Central and redundancy-free storage facility for all data used in the R/3 System. The ABAP Dictionary describes the logical structure of application development objects and their representation in the structures of the underlying relational database. All runtime environment components such as application programs or the database interface get information about these objects from the ABAP Dictionary. The ABAP Dictionary is an active data dictionary and is fully integrated into the ABAP Workbench.

ABAP Native SQL allows you to include database-specific SQL statements in an ABAP program. Most ABAP programs containing database-specific SQL statements do not run with different databases. If different databases are involved, use Open SQL. To execute ABAP Native SQL in an ABAP program, use the statement EXEC.

ABAP Workbench (BC-DWB)
Subset of standard SQL statements. To avoid conflicts between database tables and to keep ABAP programs independent from the database system used, SAP has generated its own set of SQL statements known as Open SQL. Using Open SQL allows you to access all database tables available in the R/3 System, regardless of the manufacturer.

ABAP Workbench (BC-DWB)
Programs written in the ABAP programming language. n ABAP program consists of a collection of processing locks, which are processed sequentially as soon as they are called by the runtime system. There are two main kinds of ABAP program: Report programs (ABAP reports) Dialog programs

Basis Services/Communication Interfaces (BC-SRV)ABAP Workbench tool that allows users without knowledge of the ABAP programming language, or table or field names, to define and execute their own reports To determine the structure of reports in ABAP Query, users only have to enter texts, and select fields and options. Fields are selected from functional areas and can be assigned a sequence by numbering There are three types of report available