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Jul 17, 2008 at 08:26 AM

Local tables and structures VS field-symbols VS Cursors

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Hello Experts.

So this may be a question like "They don't have anything to do with each other" but during this short time I've being working with ABAP; I've saw people that used each one of them to do pretty much the same thing; Select data, loop through it and write it; so I think that there must be some kind of "rule" that tells us which is the best way to use each one of them.

I think that a local table mimics a database table, a field-symbol is like a pointer and I used to work with cursors in Trans-SQL which were very powerful, but are they the same in ABAP ? Which of them is faster?

Can you please tell me when to use the different techniques and/or arrange me some kind of documentation on this matter?

Thank you for your help.

Jorge