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Creating Internal Tables Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

You define internal tables first as an abstract data type in the program or ABAP Dictionary, and then as a data object based on that, or they are declared directly as a fully specified data object. When you create an internal table as a data object, you should ensure that only the administration entry which belongs to an internal table is declared statically. The size of table headers for initial tables is currently 8 bytes. This should be heeded whenever internal tables occur as components of complex data objects. Also, empty tables can use up a relatively high amount of storage space as components of tables. The size of the entire storage space required for an internal table is not defined in the declaration – as is the case for data objects of the type string or xstring. Table rows are added to and deleted from the table dynamically at runtime by the various statements for adding and deleting records.

 

Table Types

Internal Tables

Special Aspects of Standard Tables

 

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