Browsing table data

Looking at what a system holds while developing or supporting it: the rows behind a key, the reference data a field points at, the tables that carry data for one object. Editing configuration records through maintenance screens is a different job, even where the same transaction does both.

Overview

Looking at what a system holds while developing or supporting it: the rows behind a key, the check table a field points at, the tables that carry data for one object. Maintaining customising entries through maintenance views is a different job, even where the same transaction does both.

SAP SHIPS
Standard ABAP →

ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse SAP's Eclipse plugins for ABAP: source, dictionary and CDS editors, Project Explorer, Outline and ABAP Unit, calling ADT resources on the connected system.

ABAP Cloud →

ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse SAP's Eclipse plugins for ABAP: source, dictionary and CDS editors, Project Explorer, Outline and ABAP Unit, calling ADT resources on the connected system.

THE COMMUNITY ADDS

SAP GUI reports such as abap-db-browser sit beside SE16, abap2UI5 apps such as se16n show tables in the browser, and clients outside SAP GUI such as Hammer and the ABAP remote filesystem extension read rows over a connection to the system.

Artifacts13

13 of 13 artifacts
ArtifactSignals
Apps9
ABAP_DATABASE_MANAGERABAP report running custom SQL queries into an ALV grid
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none
abap-db-browserSAP GUI browser for tables, views, CDS views and joins
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Functional boundary
HR_DMERead-only SAP GUI report listing where HCM object data is stored
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none
sapguiThirty classic transactions rebuilt as abap2UI5 apps
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Functional boundary
se16nTable content browser in abap2UI5, for ABAP Cloud and on premise
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Functional boundary
Simple Data ExplorerMulti-window SAP GUI explorer for tables, views and CDS SQL views
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none
sql-consoleBrowser-based SQL console built on abap2UI5
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Functional boundary
urbani-saplinkSE16 clone shipped as SAPlink files
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Quiet+1
ztoadOpen SQL editor for ABAP with ALV output
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none
Desktop apps1
HammerNative macOS code editor for ABAP and CDS
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Functional boundary
IDE extensions2
ABAP remote filesystemVS Code extension editing ABAP systems over ADT as a filesystem
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none
VERTEXADT extension for Eclipse and VS Code showing three SAP GUI tools
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none
Packages1
ABAP Development Tools for EclipseSAP's Eclipse plugins for ABAP development over ADT
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Functional boundary

Content1

Group by
Piece, what it offers
Agentic Loop with Joule for Developers and ADT MCP Server
YouTube — SAP Developers playlists, SAP Developers, Talk

Details

Coverage
statecore and community, ABAP
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For your agent
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capability:abap-data-browsing
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/capabilities/abap-data-browsing.json
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