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Obsolete Access Statements
The following statements are predecessors of ABAP SQL and are not part of it. The keywords of the obsolete access statements are based on the processing statements for internal tables and not on SQL.
The statements specified here are only possible for reasons of downward compatibility and only for database tables or classic views whose names begin with "T" and have a maximum of five characters.
Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54
Note
The statements MODIFY and DELETE specified here overlap the
short forms of ABAP SQL which are also obsolete.
Since the keywords MODIFY and DELETE are also
in SQL, these statements were transferred to ABAP SQL. MODIFY and DELETE
stop being ABAP SQL statements only when used with the addition VERSION.