In SQL, UNION is used to combine the results of two queries. But in many cases, UNION ALL should be used instead.

I’ve just realised that I wasn’t receiving notifications for comments.

Now that ABAP has comprehensions, there are a number of superpowers that aren’t always obvious. Here, I’ll show you how to change the value of a single field in all, several or just one record of an internal table.

Exceptions can be passed back, method by method, bubbling up, and caught by a method that has nothing to do with the one that raised it. And how will you find it?

There’s nothing worse than seeing code that abuses variables. They’re so delicate, and yet they’re treated so badly. Poor things. And to those who have to read them. The worst way to treat a variable is to make it global. It’s hard to believe, but in 2025 this crime continues to plague our systems. Well, here’s a way to show them some love.

Those who work in SAP think it’s normal for everything to be represented by obscure codes that mean nothing. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Stop it! Create human-readable codes please.

I once wanted to test a class whose constructor took several parameters, each requiring an instance of a different interface. These instances weren’t easy to create and weren’t relevant to the test. After some experimenting, I found a way to work around the problem.

A quick reminder. I thought this was obvious but I keep seeing IF statements that explicitly test the result of a boolean method against ABAP_TRUE or using INITIAL. There’s no need! ABAP is clever in this regard.

It’s great to find peers who are equally interested in improving and evolving, not just as a programmer but also as a human being. I recently found one.

Remember how with CALL FUNCTION IN UPDATE TASK you could delay some actions until the moment of a COMMIT?

I found this amazing chart of SAP technologies.

The FILTER function is new and still relatively unknown. I will give you an example of how it can be used.

Did you know that you can set a starting point for ATC and, thanks to that, be able to run ATC in legacy code?

When a porcelain object breaks in Japan, sometimes instead of throwing it away, they mend it. But they don’t mend it just any old way; they mend it with gold. This technique is called Kintsugi.

It is a common practice in ABAP to use MODIFY instead of INSERT and UPDATE. Do you do it too? Tell me why. Is it laziness? Is it fear? Is it just a matter of “whatever”? Or is it more like “screw it”?