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What is view? Different types of view. Explain?


View - A view is a virtual table containing fields from one or more tables. A virtual table that does not contain any data, but instead provides an application-oriented view of one or more ABAP Dictionary tables.

Different Types of View:

• Maintenance
•  Database – It is on more than two tables.
•  Projection – It is only on one table.
• Help

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using views in ABAP programming ?

advantages: 

• view is used to retrieve the data very fastly from the database tables 
• memory wastage is reduced 
• faster than joins to retrieve the data from database tables 

disadvantages: 

• view is not a container,it will not hold the data 
• view memory is not permanent memory

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