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1.internal Table and Work Area

Internal tables and work areas are temporary memory locations that store the data of database tables at runtime. Internal tables can store multiple records from a database table, with memory allocated dynamically starting at 8kb. Work areas store a single record from a database table. Both internal tables and work areas are instances of database tables and are declared using the TABLE OF and TYPE keywords respectively.

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1.internal Table and Work Area

Internal tables and work areas are temporary memory locations that store the data of database tables at runtime. Internal tables can store multiple records from a database table, with memory allocated dynamically starting at 8kb. Work areas store a single record from a database table. Both internal tables and work areas are instances of database tables and are declared using the TABLE OF and TYPE keywords respectively.

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Internal Tables and Work Areas are temporary memory locations which are used to

store the data of


database tables at run time and in other way we can call them as instances of
database tables.

*Internal Tables

-Temporary memory locations which are used to store the data of database table.
Internal table is an instance of database table.

-By default 8kb memory will be allocated and it increases dynamically( +8kb +8kb).

( Internal tables can store multiple records.)

General Syntax :

DATA : <ITAB> TYPE TABLE OF <DBTABLE> .

*Work Areas

-Temporary memory locations which are used to store the data of database table.
Work area is an instance of database table.

Work areas can store only one record.

General Syntax:
DATA : <WA> TYPE <DBTABLE> .

*Internal Table declaration

DATA : IT_ITAB TYPE TABLE OF MARA .

OR

TYPES : BEGIN OF TY_TABLE,


MATNR TYPE MARA-MATNR,
MTART TYPE MARA-MTART,
MEINS TYPE MARA-MEINS,
END OF TY_TABLE.

DATA : IT_ITAB TYPE TABLE OF TY_TABLE .

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