this book is your guide for analyzing and optimizing abap source code. you’ll learn about the analysis tools and performance-relevant technologies, and discover how you can analyze existing source code and enhance your programming style. this is the resource you need to ensure that your abap programs are fully optimized.1 analysis toolsafter reading this book, you’ll know when and how to use analysis tools properly — including code inspector, performance trace, abap trace, or single records statistics.2 programming technologiesget detailed information on parallel processing, internal tables, sql data processing, and much more, and learn how these technologies affect performance.3 bufferingexplore the different buffers that are available on the sap netweaver application server abap, and learn the most important buffer options to avoid unnecessary database accesses.4 database tuningyou’ll obtain a description of the database architecture and the technical background of database accesses, and master the tuning options for database accesses.5 new developmentslearn from a comprehensive overview of the new developments in abap release 7.0, ehp2, such as transaction sat, the innovations of the performance trace, and changes of internal tables.