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Table name Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

A table name identifies a table.

Syntax

<table_name> ::= [<owner>.]<identifier>

owner, identifier

Explanation

The database system uses certain table names for internal purposes. The identifiers of these tables begin with SYS. To avoid naming conflicts, therefore, you should not use table names that start with SYS.

If the name of the owner was not specified in the table name, the catalog parts are searched for the table name in the following order:

  1. Catalog part of the current owner
  2. Set of PUBLIC synonyms
  3. Catalog part of the DBA who created the current user
  4. Catalog part of the SYSDBA
  5. Catalog part of the owner of the system tables

An error message is output if the name has more than 32 characters.

SQL statements for defining a table name

CREATE TABLE statement

CREATE VIEW statement

CREATE SYNONYM statement

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