Perofrmance issue on data fetch from db table

Dear Experts,
I have one requirement which explained below step wise.
Step - 1 : I have a parameter on selection screen from where i ll get my ebeln value (User Input field) and that ebeln i ll check in ekpo table for validations.
If valid i keep it in a variable gw_ebeln.
Step - 2 : Need to fetch lifnr fron ekko based on gw_ebeln value.
Step - 3 : Need to fetch adrnr from lfa1 based on lifnr (Previously fetched from ekko table in step 2)
Step - 4 : Need to fetch email field from adr6 table based on adrnr value (Previously fetched from lfa1 table in step 3)
Step - 5 : Now for these mail id , I need to send mail by given fm.
My question is : I can create structure for step 2 , step 3, step 4 and by using " for all entries " in select statement i ll fetch my mail id in step 4.
So instead of creating structure and then use for all entries , I can fetch by using "select single" statement for step 2 , step3 step 4.bcz i am fetching only one field from all 3 table.
So which one is better performance wise and why ?
I need more and clear clarifications on these difference.
Please provide me suggestions.
Thanks & Regards,
Ajit Sarangi

Hi Ajit,
We are referring item table EKPO. Multiple entries are possible.
To append the values in final internal table, we are going to process the LOOP. Inside loop, we should not use the Select statement, that decreases the performance. Database Interaction process should not done inside Loop...Endloop.
That's why we are creating the Internal table for processing the values. Since we need limited number of fields in the particular table, we are creating our own structure in the program.
For this case, For all entries will give better performance with compare to Select Single.
Regards
Rajkumar Narsimman

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Native SQL is only loosely integrated into ABAP, and allows access to all of the functions contained in the programming interface of the respective database system. Unlike Open SQL statements, Native SQL statements are not checked and converted, but instead are sent directly to the database system. Programs that use Native SQL are specific to the database system for which they were written. R/3 applications contain as little Native SQL as possible. In fact, it is only used in a few Basis components (for example, to create or change table definitions in the ABAP Dictionary).
The database-dependent layer in the diagram serves to hide the differences between database systems from the rest of the database interface. You choose the appropriate layer when you install the Basis system. Thanks to the standardization of SQL, the differences in the syntax of statements are very slight. However, the semantics and behavior of the statements have not been fully standardized, and the differences in these areas can be greater. When you use Native SQL, the function of the database-dependent layer is minimal.
Types of Work Process
Although all work processes contain the components described above, they can still be divided into different types. The type of a work process determines the kind of task for which it is responsible in the application server. It does not specify a particular set of technical attributes. The individual tasks are distributed to the work processes by the dispatcher.
Before you start your R/3 System, you determine how many work processes it will have, and what their types will be. The dispatcher starts the work processes and only assigns them tasks that correspond to their type. This means that you can distribute work process types to optimize the use of the resources on your application servers.
The following diagram shows again the structure of an application server, but this time, includes the various possible work process types:
The various work processes are described briefly below. Other parts of this documentation describe the individual components of the application server and the R/3 System in more detail.
Dialog Work Process
Dialog work processes deal with requests from an active user to execute dialog steps.
Update Work Process
Update work processes execute database update requests. Update requests are part of an SAP LUW that bundle the database operations resulting from the dialog in a database LUW for processing in the background.
Background Work Process
Background work processes process programs that can be executed without user interaction (background jobs).
Enqueue Work Process
The enqueue work process administers a lock table in the shared memory area. The lock table contains the logical database locks for the R/3 System and is an important part of the SAP LUW concept. In an R/3 System, you may only have one lock table. You may therefore also only have one application server with enqueue work processes.
Spool Work Process
The spool work process passes sequential datasets to a printer or to optical archiving. Each application server may contain several spool work process.
The services offered by an application server are determined by the types of its work processes. One application server may, of course, have more than one function. For example, it may be both a dialog server and the enqueue server, if it has several dialog work processes and an enqueue work process.
You can use the system administration functions to switch a work process between dialog and background modes while the system is still running. This allows you, for example, to switch an R/3 System between day and night operation, where you have more dialog than background work processes during the day, and the other way around during the night.
ABAP Application Server
R/3 programs run on application servers. They are an important component of the R/3 System. The following sections describe application servers in more detail.
Structure of an ABAP Application Server
The application layer of an R/3 System is made up of the application servers and the message server. Application programs in an R/3 System are run on application servers. The application servers communicate with the presentation components, the database, and also with each other, using the message server.
The following diagram shows the structure of an application server:
The individual components are:
Work Processes
An application server contains work processes, which are components that can run an application. Work processes are components that are able to execute an application (that is, one dialog step each). Each work process is linked to a memory area containing the context of the application being run. The context contains the current data for the application program. This needs to be available in each dialog step. Further information about the different types of work process is contained later on in this documentation.
Dispatcher
Each application server contains a dispatcher. The dispatcher is the link between the work processes and the users logged onto the application server. Its task is to receive requests for dialog steps from the SAP GUI and direct them to a free work process. In the same way, it directs screen output resulting from the dialog step back to the appropriate user.
Gateway
Each application server contains a gateway. This is the interface for the R/3 communication protocols (RFC, CPI/C). It can communicate with other application servers in the same R/3 System, with other R/3 Systems, with R/2 Systems, or with non-SAP systems.
The application server structure as described here aids the performance and scalability of the entire R/3 System. The fixed number of work processes and dispatching of dialog steps leads to optimal memory use, since it means that certain components and the memory areas of a work process are application-independent and reusable. The fact that the individual work processes work independently makes them suitable for a multi-processor architecture. The methods used in the dispatcher to distribute tasks to work processes are discussed more closely in the section Dispatching Dialog Steps.
Shared Memory
All of the work processes on an application server use a common main memory area called shared memory to save contexts or to buffer constant data locally.
The resources that all work processes use (such as programs and table contents) are contained in shared memory. Memory management in the R/3 System ensures that the work processes always address the correct context, that is the data relevant to the current state of the program that is running. A mapping process projects the required context for a dialog step from shared memory into the address of the relevant work process. This reduces the actual copying to a minimum.
Local buffering of data in the shared memory of the application server reduces the number of database reads required. This reduces access times for application programs considerably. For optimal use of the buffer, you can concentrate individual applications (financial accounting, logistics, human resources) into separate application server groups.
Database Connection
When you start up an R/3 System, each application server registers its work processes with the database layer, and receives a single dedicated channel for each. While the system is running, each work process is a user (client) of the database system (server). You cannot change the work process registration while the system is running. Neither can you reassign a database channel from one work process to another. For this reason, a work process can only make database changes within a single database logical unit of work (LUW). A database LUW is an inseparable sequence of database operations. This has important consequences for the programming model explained below.
Dispatching Dialog Steps
The number of users logged onto an application server is often many times greater than the number of available work processes. Furthermore, it is not restricted by the R/3 system architecture. Furthermore, each user can run several applications at once. The dispatcher has the important task of distributing all dialog steps among the work processes on the application server.
The following diagram is an example of how this might happen:
1. The dispatcher receives the request to execute a dialog step from user 1 and directs it to work process 1, which happens to be free. The work process addresses the context of the application program (in shared memory) and executes the dialog step. It then becomes free again.
2. The dispatcher receives the request to execute a dialog step from user 2 and directs it to work process 1, which is now free again. The work process executes the dialog step as in step 1.
3. While work process 1 is still working, the dispatcher receives a further request from user 1 and directs it to work process 2, which is free.
4. After work processes 1 and 2 have finished processing their dialog steps, the dispatcher receives another request from user 1 and directs it to work process 1, which is free again.
5. While work process 1 is still working, the dispatcher receives a further request from user 2 and directs it to work process 2, which is free.
From this example, we can see that:
A dialog step from a program is assigned to a single work process for execution.
The individual dialog steps of a program can be executed on different work processes, and the program context must be addressed for each new work process.
A work process can execute dialog steps of different programs from different users.
The example does not show that the dispatcher tries to distribute the requests to the work processes such that the same work process is used as often as possible for the successive dialog steps in an application. This is useful, since it saves the program context having to be addressed each time a dialog step is executed.
Dispatching and the Programming Model
The separation of application and presentation layer made it necessary to split up application programs into dialog steps. This, and the fact that dialog steps are dispatched to individual work processes, has had important consequences for the programming model.
As mentioned above, a work process can only make database changes within a single database logical unit of work (LUW). A database LUW is an inseparable sequence of database operations. The contents of the database must be consistent at its beginning and end. The beginning and end of a database LUW are defined by a commit command to the database system (database commit). During a database LUW, that is, between two database commits, the database system itself ensures consistency within the database. In other words, it takes over tasks such as locking database entries while they are being edited, or restoring the old data (rollback) if a step terminates in an error.
A typical SAP application program extends over several screens and the corresponding dialog steps. The user requests database changes on the individual screens that should lead to the database being consistent once the screens have all been processed. However, the individual dialog steps run on different work processes, and a single work process can process dialog steps from other applications. It is clear that two or more independent applications whose dialog steps happen to be processed on the same work process cannot be allowed to work with the same database LUW.
Consequently, a work process must open a separate database LUW for each dialog step. The work process sends a commit command (database commit) to the database at the end of each dialog step in which it makes database changes. These commit commands are called implicit database commits, since they are not explicitly written into the application program.
These implicit database commits mean that a database LUW can be kept open for a maximum of one dialog step. This leads to a considerable reduction in database load, serialization, and deadlocks, and enables a large number of users to use the same system.
However, the question now arises of how this method (1 dialog step = 1 database LUW) can be reconciled with the demand to make commits and rollbacks dependent on the logical flow of the application program instead of the technical distribution of dialog steps. Database update requests that depend on one another form logical units in the program that extend over more than one dialog step. The database changes associated with these logical units must be executed together and must also be able to be undone together.
The SAP programming model contains a series of bundling techniques that allow you to group database updates together in logical units. The section of an R/3 application program that bundles a set of logically-associated database operations is called an SAP LUW. Unlike a database LUW, a SAP LUW includes all of the dialog steps in a logical unit, including the database update.
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Select query for fetching from 3 tables.

Can we have a single Select query for fetching same fields (kappl,kschl,vkorg,vtweg,spart,kunwe,datbi,knuma,datab,knumh)
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Regards,
Shashank.

Hi,
If you have kunnr field in all the 3 tables then it is possible. use inner join as below
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         connid   TYPE spfli-connid,
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WRITE: / wa-fldate, wa-carrname, wa-connid.
ENDLOOP.
<b>Reward Points if this helps,</b>
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Hi,
Need to fetch data from FMGLFLEXA table based on below condtion.
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Shweta.

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How to check tin the select query the data is being fetched from buffer or database .Is there any method to trace that or it is just the setting we are doing while creating a table..
Pls suggest

Hi,
>
arun purushothaman wrote:
>Is there any method to trace that or it is just the setting we are doing while creating a table..
> Pls suggest
sure. ST05.
SQL Trace shows everything that is going to the database. This means those statements are NOT
using the buffer. The SQL Trace lines are yellow.
Buffer Trace shows everything that is going to the buffer. This means those statements are NOT
going to the database. The Buffer Trace lines are blue.
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I am working on one object where i stuck with one issue. The requirement is I have to retrieve the most recent date from CDHDR table based on CHANGENR in CDPOS table. Where i am doing FOR ALL ENTRIES on CDPOS table to get the MAX( date )and i got the error, that aggregate functions are not allowed except COUNT( * ) with for all entries.
Any thread which can solve this issue would help aswel.
Please guide me how to achieve this. <removed>
Edited by: Thomas Zloch on Mar 13, 2010 9:10 PM

Hi Li,
Thats was really helpful information , infact my requirement is same as what you said. I even checked in the table entries there is only one changenumber.
You said we can take the first record, i even did the same. But for TABNAME I have to pass 3 table name 'LFA1', 'LFB1' and 'LFM1'. For FNAME 'LOEVM', 'SPERR'. I have written the code as below.
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        IF sy-subrc EQ c_0.
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Select UDATE from CDHDR based on CHANGENR in CDPOS.
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                   objectid
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                   FOR ALL ENTRIES IN i_cdpos_a1
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Here i got UDATE which have all the dates from 3 tables. I have to display in the output the field value (X) of LOEVM and UDATE for LFA1, SPERR value and UDATE for LFA1.Same way for other two tables, I have to display the UDATE and its field value (X). Where UDATE should be most recent date respectively.
How can I populate the Recent date (UDATE) from one interal table for indvidual field values and table names.

Need to load large data set from Oracle table onto desktop using ODBC

I don't have TOAD nor any other tool for querying the database. I'm wondering how I can load a large data set from an Oracle table onto my desktop using Excel or Access or some other tool using ODBC or not using ODBC if that's possible. I need results to be in a .csv file or something similar. Speed is what is important here. I'm looking to load more than 1 million but less than 10 million records at once. Thanks.

hillelhalevi wrote:
I don't have TOAD nor any other tool for querying the database. I'm wondering how I can load a large data set from an Oracle table onto my desktop using Excel or Access or some other tool using ODBC or not using ODBC if that's possible. I need results to be in a .csv file or something similar. Speed is what is important here. I'm looking to load more than 1 million but less than 10 million records at once. Thanks.
Use Oracle's free Sql Developer
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-developer/downloads/index.html
You can just issue a query like this
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See this article by Jeff Smith for other options
http://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2012/05/formatting-query-results-to-csv-in-oracle-sql-developer/

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