Friends, some time ago I discussed SAP Archiving Procedure wherein one question remained unanswered regarding whether is it mandatory to perform Delete phase and then Storage. Is it possible to perform Storage first and then Delete phase? I am taking this opportunity to explain in brief the answer of above question and some other customizing [...]
Friends, in this post I am going to discuss about archive index. I have already discussed about archiving procedure. During write phase of archiving, data is read from database and the same is written is a file which is called as archive file. This is a flat file and contains data in sequential format. Now, [...]
A few days ago I discussed about Archiving procedure and SAP Archiving Objects. In this post I would be discussing about what data gets archived through SAP Archiving Object FI_DOCUMNT. This is an archiving object which helps in archiving financial data (FI documents) from SAP R/3 system. A number of times, people have confusion as [...]
Friends, if we talk about data then the term database and DBMS automatically comes in the mind. Well, of course because these are the technologies that revolutionize the way data is stored and fetched. But it is a reality that no matter how good is your DBMS, there is always a limit of the data [...]
Friends, those of you who are familiar with SAP archiving object FI_DOCUMNT, must have seen a flag ‘Retain account display balance’ on the selection screen of post processing program SAPF048I. We have a small documentation available for this flag in F1 help. But, this flag causes a lot of confusion in terms of how the [...]
Archiving object is central element of data archiving and defines the unit that can be archived and deleted from the database as a whole. In simple words, an archiving object determines which database tables are accessed during archiving. Here tables are very important because the data from various tables combined together forms a complete business [...]