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  Calculating Storage Space Gained

Prerequisites

You have determined the tables involved. For more information, see the application-specific documentation for the archiving objects. You can also use the DB Tables function to do this (see Tables and Archiving Objects ).

Procedure

Call the ABAP Dictionary by choosing Start of the navigation path Tools Next navigation step ABAP/4 Workbench Next navigation step Development Next navigation step Dictionary End of the navigation path .

Enter the name of each table and choose Display .

The Dictionary: Table screen appears and contains several tab pages with detailed information on the relevant table. The header contains the following information on the table.

  • Name

  • Type (transparent or cluster)

  • Status (active or inactive)

  • Short description of table contents

    The length of the table fields is given in bytes and can be found in the Length column on the Fields tab page.

    Caution Caution

    You must multiply the values for tables containing dependent positions by a factor that reflects their actual business use.

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See also:

Storage Space Gained by Archiving