Tell me, please, where ELSE SAP uses a text table as a distinct values table?

[former_member181923]

I have found a place in a layered product (which shall be nameless) where SAP uses a text table as a distinct values table for the non-text table which the text table supports.

This is as unspeakable a crime as I've ever seen committed inside an SAP product, and I'm wondering if anyone else has ever discovered the same kind of lazy and/or ignorant programming in an SAP product or layered product.

If so, I'd be curious to know where.

You tell me yours, and I'll tell you mine.

[Jelena]

Like you said - "it's the cheap way". I don't recall seeing the same "design" (not that I looked though), but plenty of other "economy options" in SAP. Not everyone is Thomas Jung, I guess.

[former_member221827]

Funnily enough I am working on updating a transaction/program written by Mr. Jung.  Some interesting code in there.

[former_member181923]

That's actually an insult to Thomas, Jelena. One doesn't have to be anywhere near as brilliant as Thomas to know that using a text table to dedup a config table is unspeakably stupid.

[stephenjohannes]

Yep, Thomas would have used BRF+ instead of configuration tables in the first place .

[former_member181923]

We cross-posted or close to it - see my response to your previous post ...