{"id":7283,"date":"2025-08-02T16:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/?question=what-are-pooled-tables-in-sap"},"modified":"2025-08-02T16:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:29:15","slug":"what-are-pooled-tables-in-sap","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/?question=what-are-pooled-tables-in-sap","title":{"rendered":"What are pooled tables in SAP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In SAP, pooled tables are a type of database table used to store data from multiple internal tables (called logical tables) within a single physical table in the database. Pooled tables help in reducing the number of database objects and are primarily used for storing control data (like customizing settings or system-specific settings) rather than transactional data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong><br \/>\nSuppose there are logical tables ZTABLE1, ZTABLE2, and ZTABLE3 \u2014 all are pooled tables.These are all stored together inside a single physical table, say POOLTAB.<\/p>\n<p>When you access ZTABLE1 from within SAP, the system filters and retrieves only those records in POOLTAB that belong to ZTABLE1.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"content-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-2-2025-04_58_50-PM.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","question-category":[158],"question_tags":[178,239,240,241,177],"class_list":["post-7283","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-abap","question_tags-abap","question_tags-database-tables","question_tags-ddic","question_tags-pooled-tables","question_tags-sap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/question\/7283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fquestion-category&post=7283"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fquestion_tags&post=7283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}