General Performance Advice For SAP ABAP Open SQL

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General Performance Advice for Open SQL - This blog will gives about
performance tuning in ABAP programming. How to optimize your
ABAP SQL? Tips and tricks for select queries. Deducting expensive
SQL for a transaction which can be either custom or standard
transaction. ABAP SQL performance tuning is one of the challenging
area. I am sure below the contents will be a basic for ABAP beginners.
Keep the database hit list small
Wherever possible, you should include all selection conditions in the
WHERE clause, using AND and checking for equality. Do not select a
large dataset and then check it with CHECK. If you want to read the
whole table, you do not have to specify a WHERE condition at all.
Transfer small amounts of data
If you only want to transfer a few elds, use SELECT with a structure,
not SELECT *. Alternatively, you can use one of the views in the ABAP
Dictionary to select data.
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Use
the aggregate
functions rather than selecting data and grouping
it
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yourself. SAP buffering is switched off when you use aggregate
functions.
When you UPDATE a database record, you should only update those
columns that have been changed.
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columns that have been changed.

Use a small number of database accesses
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When you INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE, you should use sets of data
instead of individual table entries. This ensures that the index only has
to be maintained once, which relieves the load on the database.
You should only use nested SELECT loops when the hit list in the
outermost level is very small.
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There are various ways of avoiding nested SELECT loops:
Building a JOIN in the FROM clause

Joins as views de ned in the ABAP Dictionary.
SELECT ... FOR ALL ENTRIES
In the outermost loop, the database table (PACKAGE SIZE) is read
section-by-section into an internal table, sorted by its primary key
(SORT on the internal table, or read in using ORDER BY PRIMARY
KEY). For each data record in the internal table, all associated,
dependent records are read into a further internal table (using
SELECT ... FOR ALL ENTRIES). This is also sorted. You can then carry
on processing using a nested LOOP.
The advantage of SELECT ... FOR ALL ENTRIES is that it provides good
performance regardless of the selectivity of the condition on the
outermost table, since, in contrast to the nested SELECT, it works in a
data-oriented way in the database, but still only picks out the relevant
database entries (different to parallel cursor processing).
You should use the addition FOR ALL ENTRIES if a JOIN is not possible
for syntactical reasons or if the JOIN would result in high redundancy
due to the constantly repeated elds from the left table.
Explicit cursor handling (OPEN CURSOR [WITH HOLD]...)
In this processing type, a separate cursor is opened for each table
involved. These are processed in parallel. In order for the system to
recognize control breaks, the tables must be sorted (ORDER BY
PRIMARY KEY) before being read. You should only use parallel cursor
processing when you want to process the outermost table completely
or to a large extent, since WHERE conditions for the outermost table
cannot be passed on to other tables (in other words, you might read
more data than is necessary).
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Caution: RANGES tables
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You should use explicit cursor handling for large quantities of data and
logical databases.
Search through small amounts of dataIn WHERE conditions, you
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Search through small amounts of dataIn WHERE conditions, you

should use EQ comparisons linked with AND as often as possible. This
means that the system can use indexes in the search.
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NOT, OR and IN are not supported by indexes unless all of the elds in
the SELECT clause and WHERE condition are also contained in the
index.
Reduce the database load wherever possible
Saving database in local buffers (see SAP buffering) can save
considerable time in client-server environments, as the access time via
the network is considerably higher than access time via a locally
buffered table.
The SAP buffering is switched off:

When you use SELECT FOR UPDATE or SELECT DISTINCT in the
SELECT clause,
When you use BYPASSING BUFFER in the FROM clause,
When you use JOINs and subqueries (subqueries),
When you use ORDER BY f1 f2 ... in the ORDER-BY clause.
When you use aggregate functions in the SELECT clause.
When you use IS [NOT] NULL in the WHERE condition.
You cannot process a query in the SAP buffer if the generic key section
is not speci ed in the WHERE condition
Avoid re-reading the same data.
Before you change a table using DELETE, INSERT or UPDATE, you
should check whether you need to read entries using SELECT.
If you want to sort data, it is more ef cient to read it into the internal
table and sort it using SORT than to use the ORDER-BY clause, where
the sort is not supported by an index.
Check whether you can delete duplicates using the variant DELETE
ADJACENT DUPLICATES FROM itab instead of using SELECT
DISTINCT.
You should use logical databases if possible.
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Strings in database tables
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Data
in long
strings
is stored outside the dataset, which means that it
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takes longer to access long strings than to access other data types.
This applies in particular to set operations, and does not apply for
short strings. Next blog will give about how to get trace and analyse
further.
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