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alias name

A name that can (or must) be used as an alternative to the real name of an object. The following alias names can be defined in ABAP:

• The statement ALIASES can be used to declare an alias name for an interface component in a class or in a compound interface.

• The addition ALIAS can be used to specify an alias name for the primary table key in the declaration of an internal table.

• In ABAP SQL, the addition AS can be used to define alias names for columns of the results set in a SELECT list or for data sources in the FROM clause.

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54