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Switching on the database trace

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Switching on the database trace

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By now, you learned a transaction is always associated with a program. You can check the screen definitions, the tool bag definitions and the underlying source code as well. Sometimes you need to go deeper and answer the evergreen question: Where does this data come from? For example, where does the data come from in the transaction displaying a sales order. One method for discovering the tables behind the transaction is analyzing the underlying source code and looking for database reads. It's obvious, it is a very time consuming investigation, isn't it? But, don't worry! There is a powerful tool for this task that can help you. It is called Performance Trace. You can access this tool via the transaction code ST05. So let's run it. This brings you to the main screen. Generally, you can use this tool for making performance statistics about the execution of transactions. You can analyze them in different aspects. Now…

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