What is an ABAP data dictionary?
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Answer / paramjeet
ABAP 4 data dictionary describes the logical structures of
the objects used in application development and shows how
they are mapped to the underlying relational database in
tables/views.
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Answer / lokesh
Data definitons (metadata) are created and managed
in the ABAP dictionary. The ABAP Dictionary permits a
central Description of all the data used in the system
without redundancies. New or modified information is
automatically provided for all the system components. This
ensures data integrity , data consistency and data security.
you can create the corresponding objects(tables or
views)in the underlying relational database using these data
definitions.The ABAP dictionary therefore describes the
logical structure of the objects used in application
development and shows how they are mapped to the
underlaying relation database in tables or views
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Answer / kanchana
ABAP 4 data dictionary describes the logical structures of
the objects used in application development and shows how
they are mapped to the underlying relational database in
tables/views.
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Answer / nisha
ABAP Dictionary is a fully integrated data environment controlling facility. It contains all definitions for Domains, Data Elements, Structures, Tables, Views, Search Helps, Lock Objects, Matchcode Objects, The Table Maintenance Generator, and the Table Description Generator.This ensures data integrity and consistency.
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Answer / rizwan alam
advance business application programming in 4 generation
language.The ABAP Dictionary permits a
central Description of all the data used in the system
without redundancies. The ABAP dictionary therefore
describes the
logical structure of the objects used in application
development and shows how they are mapped to the
underlaying relation database in tables or views
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Answer / dilip
ABAP data dictionary tells about the structure of all the
objects which are used in application development and also
it gives the information about how these objects are mapped
to the underlying data base.
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Answer / mansouri
Data dictionary is a workplace for defining table, define
data type, display table content.
Go to transaction code SE11 (SAP Menu->Tools->ABAP
Workbench->Development->Data Dictionary).
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