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Using Conditional Aggregation in CDS views on AnyDB or

HANA
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Background:

We recently needed to quickly create an extract of sales order related data with ~200 columns using
~20 source tables from ECC on anyDB. With a relatively straightforward pull of data, with little or no
calculated columns or complex transformations but a short timeline, we decided to use CDS views
to exclusively gather the data.

There are other blogs within SCN warn or even advise against using CDS on a anyDB system,
however in our case this approach really worked really well. Quick development time, very easy to
test/debug, excellent performance and we now have multiple re-usable data models for Sales Order
Header & Line related data.

Disclaimer:

It is imperative that all CDS views be thoroughly tested for performance & efficient database
execution. The example below is from an ECC system where the customer values are setup unique
per Sales Order, this may not be the case in your equivalent system.

ABAP CDS
Requirement:
Conditional Aggregation

We needed to ensure unique entries per sales order & sales order lines, but also had a requirement
to include multiple customer/partner function data (e.g. sold to, ship to, bill to etc).
Using conditional aggregation in SQL to pivot multiple rows into a reduced number of rows (e.g.
single) with corresponding column headings is a common approach used in all rdbms for some
time, especially before dedicated sql functions like pivot/unpivot became available.

What I would like to show in this blog is how we can use conditional aggregation in ABAP CDS
views to accomplish this task, while avoiding having to bring the records into ABAP and having
multiple looping iterations to produce the same output.

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Step 1:
To get one record per Sales Order transaction, we need to split out the BP function values (e.g. Ship
To Country) into it’s own individual field on the Select statement.
We do this by using the CASE statement as follows..
We now have separate fields per each BP
function and associated field value. There is
also one row per BP function, in the example
below, one row for Sold To, separate row for
Bill To where only the Bill To fields are
populated.

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Step 2:
Aggregate the rows for each BP function down to a single row per Transaction.
We achieve this by using MAX function with a group by as shown below.

Querying this view now on Vbeln will give you one row with all the associated BP values split out in
individual columns.

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