BC490 - ABAP Performance Tuning

Course Version: 062

Duration: 3 days

Audience

• Developers
• Technical consultants
• Persons responsible for performance

Prerequisites:

Essential

• SAPTEC Basics of SAP Web AS
• BC400 ABAP Workbench Foundations
• BC430 ABAP Dictionary

Recommended

• None

Goals

• Learn the methods for systematic analysis of ABAP performance including individual object analyses and SAP system analyses
• Learn to optimize database accesses and ABAP processing

Course Based on Software Release

• SAP NetWeaver 7.0

Content

• Individual object analysis: transaction step analysis, SQL performance analysis, ABAP runtime analysis, ABAP Debugger, optimizing database accesses
• Unsuitable access path: introduction to database indexes; create, change and delete database indexes; DB views or ABAP joins and database indexes; Open SQL statements and database indexes
• Suitable access paths: accessing individual tables, accessing multiple tables, accessing pool and cluster tables, SAP table buffering
• Optimized use of internal tables: design and definition of internal tables, efficient structure, efficient access, applications
• SAP system analysis - overview
• SAP workload analysis (transaction profiles)

Notes

• The course is aimed at experienced ABAP developers with fundamental experience of SAP administration. The course contents that participants learn are put to practical use in the course as part of a performance optimization project. The topic of the performance of ABAP programs is also subject of the BC402 (Advanced ABAP) course. Whereas BC402 is concerned with avoiding performance problems during the design and implementation, course BC490 focuses on analyzing and eliminating existing performance problems.