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What are logical databases?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Jul 24th, 2005

Answered by: Vijay Kumar Singh on: Oct 2nd, 2011

A logical database (LDB) in systems engineering is a representation of an organization's data, organized in terms of entities and relationships and is independent of any particular data management technology.

Answered by: Durga on: May 1st, 2006

Respected sir,        I am doing job.Please send me more question on module pool programing(real time).  Please give me information about logical database....

Machine target in SAP

Asked By: ajaynarayan1 | Asked On: Sep 27th, 2011

Ours is an engineering industry. We are having some machinery. For every machine there is one target for every 8 hours. If I wanted to enter the machine target in SAP, where I wanted to enter the same and how I can find the capacity for 24 hours for so many number of machines. Please clarify?

Whats the difference between r3trans and tp in SAP-dba?

Asked By: mohammed iqbal | Asked On: Mar 16th, 2006

Answered by: soumenc on: Dec 13th, 2009

Actually R3TRANS is used by TP (Both are SAP Kernel Programs) for anything to write from /to to database.R3 trans also writes transport logs in the DIR_TRANS/tmp directory, which after the job is fini...

Answered by: pasupuleti suresh on: Mar 22nd, 2006

R/3trans is the r/3 system transport program which can be used for transporting data between different sap systems ,even when they dont belong to the same group .R3trans normally is not used directo...

How to install multiple central instances on the same physical machine?

Asked By: Vanitha Krishnamurthy | Asked On: Sep 26th, 2007

Answered by: vvk.kotamraju on: Aug 27th, 2009

A SAP system can contain one and only one Central Instance. 
In the Central Instance you will have Message Server and Enque Workprocessor. The Message Server should be only one per a  single SAP system.

Answered by: kvsurender on: Oct 12th, 2008

A central instance will be only one in the system.

What are the differences of an SAP sid and host name?

Asked By: rathna | Asked On: Nov 3rd, 2007

Answered by: vvk.kotamraju on: Aug 27th, 2009

The Host name is the name of the Computer where the instances (Database/SAP) is installed.
The SID referes to all the instances in a SAP system or a Database.

Answered by: kumar_chirangv on: Dec 5th, 2007

SID is nothing but a name for an Instance.Host is  the system which hosts the Instance.Hope you will get an idea with the following example,Local Installation: Here we have both Database Instance...

Whats the significance of date modifier in payroll - SAP hr

Asked By: dukeslife28 | Asked On: Mar 5th, 2007

Answered by: Sonali15 on: Aug 23rd, 2009

Date modifier distinguishes periods with same frequency but different date. Eg. 10 - for monthly pay period but with the pay date being 5th of every month.

Hope it answers your query.

Answered by: suchdas3 on: Sep 3rd, 2008

The Date Modifier (Field name as DATMO) in Payroll is a NUMC 2 field. Its Significance is judged from its existance with Payroll Calendar. Check the view V_T549S_B  for  Payroll Calendar. Business...

What is the difference between layer and routes?

Asked By: mohammed jaleel hussain | Asked On: May 6th, 2007

Answered by: kvsurender on: Oct 12th, 2008

A layer is the path to move the development objects and is always assigned to consolidation route.
A route defines the source and target systemd to move the objects and there are two routes---1. Consolidation route bet. DEV and QAS, 2. Delivery route bet. QAS and PRO.

What is sox in SAP basis ?

Asked By: mohammed jaleel hussain | Asked On: May 6th, 2007

Answered by: ShajiJacob on: Feb 29th, 2008

SOX is Sarbanes-Oxley

Its one of the most comprehensive regulations on how companies manage their financial accounting and reporting in the USA.

Define the term " growth of the database" and how should I find the growth of database in SAP r/3?

Asked By: vikhar | Asked On: May 3rd, 2007

Answered by: kumar_chirangv on: Dec 5th, 2007

Database Growth can be monitered from the T-Code DB02
Here you can find the growth of individual tablespaces also.

Explain the principles of relational model.

Asked By: jefadu | Asked On: Nov 13th, 2007

What is clr?

Asked By: Gagan | Asked On: Jul 5th, 2007

Answered by: Geetha on: Oct 25th, 2007

Common Language Runtime, a runtime environment that manages the execution of .net program code and provides services such as memory and exception management, debugging and profiling and security.

Explain “commit” and “roll back”

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Sep 1st, 2005

Answered by: Mustafa on: Sep 28th, 2007

Ans: Commit and Rollbacks are the terms used in Oracle database, Commit is when a request is updated into the datebase tables completely then it is called as Commit, Rollback is nothing but in case of any errors or if a request is not updated into the datebase tabel its called as Rollback .

Answered by: Krishna Chaitanya Reddy.R on: Sep 1st, 2005

The Oracle RDBMS provides a transaction model based on a unit of work. The PL/SQL language supports most, but not all, of the database model for transactions (you cannot, for example, ROLLBACK FORCE)....

Difference between “insert”, “update” and “modify”

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Jul 19th, 2005

Answered by: ABAPER_KAUN on: Aug 8th, 2007

Update is only for update record not for insert, Modify is used as insert also

Answered by: brahmaiah on: Jun 16th, 2006

INSERT - Add a new record into the database table.

MODIFY - If record is available it modifies otherwise it wont modify.

UPDATE - If record is available its update the record otherwise it creates a new record.

What is the difference between support packages and kernal upgrade

Asked By: ashok kumaar | Asked On: Feb 18th, 2007

Answered by: Sunil Bujade on: May 2nd, 2007

Support package : SAP delivers Support Packages to remove any errors that appear in important transactions. Support Packages may contain language-dependent data, such as message texts, ABAP texts or s...

Explain RMAN and how it can be used for database backup & recovery?

Asked By: Balaji | Asked On: Jan 31st, 2007

Answered by: ashok kumar on: Feb 18th, 2007

RMAN IS THE recovery manager of oracle backups
it will recover the backups and put them in the repository catalogue
RMAN is used by the oracle only
in SAP BR tools are used for the recovery of backups
But these BR tools are also integrated with the RMAN only

What are the steps in moving data or databases between servers?

Asked By: shashank | Asked On: Jul 8th, 2006

Answered by: Satish Kumar on: Dec 28th, 2006

As my knowledge, copying of data can be done in two ways as per knowledge..1) copying a data from one client to another.... can be done ...  sccl ie client copy database copy can be done by ...

What is spool buffer?

Asked By: brahmaiah | Asked On: Jun 21st, 2006

Answered by: Anbu on: Nov 8th, 2006

Spool buffer is the memory space which is allocated in DB level or OS level where all the datas are stored in that buffer area at the time giving prints. In another point of view we can say that all p...

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