Select statement

[Former Member]

Hi,

can anybody tell me the difference b/n select single and select upto 1 rows?

Thanks in advance,

Rakesh..

[abdul_hakim]

here is the difference.

in <b>select single</b> u need to specify all the key fields inorder to uniquely identify the record.

<b>select upto 1 rows</b> will fetch the first record of the table without considering the uniqueness.

Cheers,

Abdul Hakim

[Former Member]

Hi,

Select single is a single statement.

Select uotp 1 rows is a loop statement. It needs ENDSELECT.

However, data retrived will be same.

Regards,

Shashank

[Former Member]

Hi,

When you say SELECT SINGLE, it means that you are expecting only one row to be present in the database for the condition you're going to specify in the WHERE clause. so that means, you will have to specify the primary key in your WHERE clause. Otherwise you get a warning.

SELECT UP TO 1 ROWS is used in cases where you just want to make sure that there is at least one entry in the database table which satisfies your WHERE clause. Generally, it is meant to be used for existence-check.

You may not want to really use the values returned by the SELECT statement in this case (thought this may not necessarily be so).And in each case the database optimizer may choose a different strategy to retrieve the data.

Knowing when to use SELECT SINGLE or SELECT ... UP TO 1 ROWS

A lot of people use the SELECT SINGLE statement to check for the existence of a value in a database. Other people prefer to use the 'UP TO 1 ROWS' variant of the SELECT statement.

So what's the difference between using 'SELECT SINGLE' statement as against a 'SELECT .... UP TO 1 ROWS' statement ?

If you're considering the statements

SELECT SINGLE field INTO w_field FROM table.

and

SELECT field INTO w_field FROM table UP TO 1 ROWS. ENDSELECT.

then looking at the result, not much apart from the extra ENDSELECT statement. Look at the run time and memory usage and they may be worlds apart.

Why is this ?? The answer is simple.

The 'SELECT SINGLE' statement selects the first row in the database that it finds that fulfils the 'WHERE' clause If this results in multiple records then only the first one will be returned and therefore may not be unique.

The 'SELECT .... UP TO 1 ROWS' statement is subtly different. The database selects all of the relevant records that are defined by the WHERE clause, applies any aggregate, ordering or grouping functions to them and then returns the first record of the result set.

Also have a look at:

Regards,

Anjali

[Former Member]

Hi,

For select single you need to specific all the promary key fields, which will fetch you the unique recor based upon that.

it is not the case with the select upto 1 rows,it will fetch the first record based on your selection criteria.

regards

Rakesh

[Former Member]

HI Rakesh,

Both are the same..

but it is better to use select single in this case.,.

In

SELECT SINGLE <cols> ... WHERE ...

you must specify values for all of the fields of the primary key of the table in the WHERE clause only to ensure that the line can be uniquely identified,

. If <b>the WHERE clause does not contain all of

the key fields, the syntax check produces a warning, and the SELECT statement reads the first

entry that it finds that matches the key fields that you have specified.</b>

regards

satesh

Message was edited by: Satesh R

[ferry_lianto]

Hi Rakesh,

According to SAP Performance course the SELECT UP TO 1 ROWS is faster than SELECT SINGLE because you are not using all the primary key fields.

select single is a construct designed to read database records with primary key. In the absence of the primary key, it might end up doing a sequential search, whereas the select up to 1 rows may assume that there is no primary key supplied and will try to find most suitable index.

The best way to find out is through sql trace or runtime analysis.

Use "select up to 1 rows" only if you are sure that all the records returned will have the same value for the field(s) you are interested in. If not, you will be reading only the first record which matches the criteria, but may be the second or the third record has the value you are looking for.

The System test result showed that the variant Single * takes less time than Up to 1 rows as there is an additional level for COUNT STOP KEY for SELECT ENDSELECT UP TO 1 ROWS.

The 'SELECT SINGLE' statement selects the first row in the database that it finds that fulfils the 'WHERE' clause If this results in multiple records then only the first one will be returned and therefore may not be unique.

Mainly: to read data from

The 'SELECT .... UP TO 1 ROWS' statement is subtly different. The database selects all of the relevant records that are defined by the WHERE clause, applies any aggregate, ordering or grouping functions to them and then returns the first record of the result set.

Mainly: to check if entries exist.

Hope this will help.

Regards,

Ferry Lianto

[rainer_hbenthal]

> According to SAP Performance course the SELECT UP TO

> 1 ROWS is faster than SELECT SINGLE because you are

> not using all the primary key fields.

This is nonsense.

[Former Member]

for select single all the primary keys have to be given in the where clause , otherwise sy-subrc will be <b>8</b>

whereas for select upto one rows , no need where condition , this is used to check whether a record exists in a table

Message was edited by: Sekhar