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Define Metadata, Master Data and Transaction Data?
(1)Metadata:-Metadata will told about the stucture of data or metaobjects. In other we can say that Metadata is data about data.
(2)Master Data:-Here data is LIKE key information like we have data of CUSTOMER information, employee and material etc. This is more like a reference data. To understand this we will take a example If a customer orders 10 UNITS of your product instead of asking the customer for his shipping address 10 times, the same can be referenced from the Customer Master Data.
(3)Transaction Data:-When we do lots of activity DAY by day these are called transaction data.

What is TERM maintenance in SAP software?
Once we configured, customized, DEPLOYED the SAP system in live environment. Then any changes made to the SAP system is termed as Maintenance. And below are the different area where system is updated or we can say maintained
(1)New FEATURE addition to the SAP System
(2)Bug Fixes
(3)SAP Kernel Updates
(4)Support Pack & Stack Updates
(5)OSS note IMPLEMENTATION

Can you plz DEFINE extended star schema in SAP?
Star Schema basically consists of fact and DIMENSION tables. The MASTER data RELATED tables are kept in SEPARATE tables, which has reference to the characteristics in the dimension tables. And these separate tables for master data are define as a Extended Star Schema.

Name the different TYPES of SOURCE system in SAP?
Below are the four main different types of source system in SAP
(1)FLAT Files
(2)SAP BW
(3)External Systems
(4)SAP R/3 Source System

Define the residual and partial payment methods of allocating CASH in aacount RECEIVABLE in SAP?
Below is the difference and the definition of Residual payment and partial payment method in sap
(1)Partial Payment:-To understand this we will take a simple example we have a INVOICE B3213 exits for $500 and CUSTOMER pay only $380. With the partial payment, it offsets the invoice leaving a REMAINING balance $120

(2)Residual Payment:-On the other hand in residual payment invoice B3213 cleared for the full value $500 and a new invoice line item is produced for the remaining balance of $120.

Define most common drawback of SAP?
Below are the five most common drawback of SAP:-
(1)SAP COSTING is very HIGH so small scale industry will not take BENEFITS of it.
(2)To handle functioning and devlopment of SAP higly trained staff is required.
(3)When we are implementing the SAP it will take more time to implement this.
(4)In SAP INTERFACE are very complex to implement
(5)It is quite impossible to determine where master data resides.

Define one time VENDORS in SAP?
In many of COMPANIES we have many types of vendors some are permanents and some vendors are doing only one transaction and then its end. And to handle this we do some SOLUTION for this. As we knows that it is not possible to create new master records for every vendor trading partner. And this One-time vendor enables for a dummy vendor code is used on invoice entry. And the information which is normally STORED in vendor master is KEYED on invoice itself.

Define two types of services which used in COMMUNICATION in SAP?
Below are the two types of services used to deal with communication
(1)Gateway Service
(2)Message Service
(1)Gateway ServiceWe use this service to do communication between R/# and the EXTERNAL applications by USING the CPI-C PROTOCOL.
(2)Message ServiceHere use command to exchange short internal messages and these service is used by the application servers.

What are the different drawbacks of SAP?
Below are the six main drawbacks of SAP
(1)SAP is very expensive
(2)SAP is very complex
(3)For SAP it demands highly trained staff
(4)IMPLEMENTATION need more time
(5)INTERFACE will take huge PROBLEM
(6)It is complex to determine where MASTER data resides

What is Table Buffers in SAP?
In SAP Table Buffer will LOCALLY situated on each application server in the system. So the data of buffered TABLES can be accessed directly from the buffer of application server. This will HELPS in to reduce the time consummation to ACCESS the database. And buffering is USEFUL when tables needs to be accessed more number of times in any program.

The "field" And "chain" Statements in SAP?
FIELD and CHAIN FLOW logic statements helps us to PROGRAM our own checks. And
FIELD and CHAIN communicate the SYSTEM which FIELDS we are CHECKING and Whether the System should carry out Checks in the flow logic or call an ABAP/4 Module.

What do you think SAP is a DATABASE or not?
No sap is not a database its a APPLICATION that uses database provides by other FAMOUS vendor LIKE Oracle, SQL Server ETC.

Below are most popular ERP's available in market that's are as below:-
(1)SAP
(2)BAAN
(3)JD Edwards
(4)ORACLE Financials
(5)Siebel
(6)PeopleSoft
In above ERP most of the companies implemented or TRYING to implement SAP because of number of advantages AVER other ERP packages.

How can we access SAP system
There are TWO WAY to access SAP system
(1)Through SAP GUI
(2)With the help of Web Browser
This is called front-end and user can install only the front-end. From front-end we can REQUEST database server and application server.

Write the MAIN role of dispatcher in SAP?
Dispatcher play an IMPORTANT role in SAP. Its a COMPONENT that TAKES request from different client systems and then stores these request in the QUEUE.

Define STEPS CREATE a table in data dictionary in SAP?
Below are the three steps to create table in data dictionary in SAP
(1)First will create a domains (data type, field length and range)
(2)In second step we will create data elements (Properties and type for table field)
(3)Now in third step we will create TABLES( SE 11)