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Data Preview is a tool in the ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse, similar to the Data Browser tool (SE16) in the ABAP Workbench.

It retrieves, sorts, and filters records available in the ABAP Data Dictionary tables, Views, external Views, and ABAP DDL sources. Data Preview constructs and executes Open SQL queries to perform the operations listed below:

  • Provide a result-set size in the Data Preview tool, which represents the records that the tool can retrieve from ABAP Data Dictionary. The default value is 100 and the maximum value is 5000.
  • Configure columns to view.
  • Sort records in ascending or descending order.
  • Set filter criteria. You can set filter criteria for multiple columns.
  • Remove filters applied to a column or delete a filter.
  • Set local filters to view specific data. Local filters filter the data from the result-set fetched from the Data Dictionary.
  • View Data preview logs. These logs display SQL queries generated while working with several options in data preview tool.
  • Set Distinct Value option for a column. This option allows you to view unique values in tabular format.
  • Save records on local system.
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