ABAP HANA 7.51: Selecting a Constant
Selecting a constant is possible now in a SELECT query. There may be different reasons for selecting a constant, however, in reality, it doesn’t fetch anything from the database. e.g. This can be readily used for existence check.
Sample Source Code: Variant 1
Explanation:
Here we are selecting a constant ABAP_TRUE which is defined in TYPE-POOL ABAP with type BOOLEAN and value X. If Material number 112 is found in MARA table, nothing is fetched from Database but since the query is successful, LV_EXISTS is set to ‘X’ which is the value of ABAP_TRUE. Hence, we didn’t fetch any field from Database and selecting a constant helped to do an existence check.
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