Following is a popular question for technical SAP Programmers in ABAP.

Q). In ABAP what is meant by Data Type and Data Objects?

Answer: From a technical perspective, a data object is a named memory location structured according to a particular data type. The data type specifies all the attributes of the data object such as character string, whole number, date, currency amount, table name containing data etc. All this is needed so as to work with data at run time so that the program can be executed in run time.

Data type acts an identifier for data in the sense that data types can be similar but might contain one unique identifier which sets that set of data apart from the entire data set. The ABAP language provides the flexibility wherein the data type may not be specified till the time of decleration of data object i.e. till run time. This way, data objects which have already been declared can be used for new data objects.

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