Creating and Processing Internal Tables

This section deals with internal tables. Besides field strings, internal tables constitute another of the structured data types provided by ABAP.

The topics in this section describe

What are Internal Tables?

Creating Internal Tables

Working with Internal Tables

 

When you are working with large volumes of data in internal tables, the amount of computer time expended can be crucial to performance. For examples of how to achieve optimum performance, choose Test ® Runtime analysis on the ABAP Development Workbench initial screen (or Transaction SE30), and choose Tips & Tricks. Under Internal Tables, you will find examples of different tasks which show you how to improve performance.