Accessing BKPF table takes too long

Question

Hi,
Is there another way to have a faster and more optimized sql query that will access the table BKPF? Or other smaller tables that contain the same data?
I'm using this:
   select bukrs gjahr belnr budat blart
   into corresponding fields of table i_bkpf
   from bkpf
   where bukrs eq pa_bukrs
   and gjahr eq pa_gjahr
   and blart in so_DocTypes
   and monat in so_monat.
The report is taking too long and is eating up a lot of resources.
Any helpful advice is highly appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi max,
I also tried using BUDAT in the where clause of my sql statement, but even that takes too long.
    select bukrs gjahr belnr budat blart monat
     appending corresponding fields of table i_bkpf
     from bkpf
     where bukrs eq pa_bukrs
     and gjahr eq pa_gjahr
     and blart in so_DocTypes
     and budat in so_budat.
I also tried accessing the table per day, but it didn't worked too...
   while so_budat-low le so_budat-high.
     select bukrs gjahr belnr budat blart monat
     appending corresponding fields of table i_bkpf
     from bkpf
     where bukrs eq pa_bukrs
     and gjahr eq pa_gjahr
     and blart in so_DocTypes
     and budat eq so_budat-low.
     so_budat-low = so_budat-low + 1.
   endwhile.
I think our BKPF tables contains a very large set of data. Is there any other table besides BKPF where we could get all accounting document numbers in a given period?