TABLES: Asterix *

EKPO and *EKPO are usually defined in TABLES statement, and both use the DDIC structure of EKPO. Classical usage is to distinguish between old and new value of the record.

This statement declares an additional table work area *DATABASE, whose data type is DATABASE, is copied from the ABAP Dictionary.

The additional table work area can be used like the normal table work area. This applies in particular to obsolete short forms of Open SQL statements.

TABLES: scarr, *scarr. 

SELECT SINGLE * 
       FROM scarr 
       WHERE carrid = 'US'. 

SELECT SINGLE * 
       FROM *scarr 
       WHERE carrid = 'AU'.