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ABAP Cloud: Data Access with ABAP SQL

A hands-on guide: from the business case to the query, on the Logali Tech enterprise model.

Write modern ABAP SQL that pushes computation down to the database, with performance best practices verified on S/4HANA.

Level: Intermediate Prerequisites: Basic ABAP.

PDF + EPUB · 14 chapters · 1st edition · ES · EN

$19

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Who this book is for
  • ABAP developers who want to write efficient, modern queries
  • Technical consultants optimizing data access on S/4HANA
  • Modelers who need to master SQL from the ABAP side
What you will learn
  • Build SELECT queries with filters, ordering, and grouping
  • Join tables and resolve subqueries, EXISTS, and FOR ALL ENTRIES
  • Analyze with window functions and hierarchies
  • Compute in the database with SQL expressions and functions
  • Write data with INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and MODIFY
  • Apply dynamic SQL and performance criteria
Table of contents
  1. 01 Introduction: The Language of Data
  2. 02 The Data Model and the Working Tools
  3. 03 Essential SELECT: Reading the Orders
  4. 04 Conditions and Operands: Filtering with Precision
  5. 05 Sort, Group, Aggregate: The First Reports
  6. 06 Joins: Uniting the Business Model
  7. 07 Subqueries, EXISTS, and FOR ALL ENTRIES
  8. 08 SQL Expressions: Calculating in the Database
  9. 09 SQL Functions: Strings, Dates, Currencies, and Units
  10. 10 Sets and CTEs: UNION, INTERSECT, and WITH
  11. 11 Window Expressions: Financial Analytics on the Journal
  12. 12 SQL Hierarchies: The Chart of Accounts as a Tree
  13. 13 Writing to the Database: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and MODIFY
  14. 14 Dynamic SQL, Client Handling, and Performance
About the author

Gheorghe Valer Scurtu — 20+ years on SAP projects in industry, banking, retail, and the public sector. Founder of Logali Tech. He writes the collection he wished he had found.

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