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What is the purpose of the files of different types that are used during a migration?

April 26, 2017different files migration purpose types Used

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What is the purpose of the files of different types that are used during a migration?

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DDL.TPL is used for creation of table/index definition in database specific syntax, contains negative list of tables, views and indexes, assignment of TABARTs to storeage unit and next extent size of table/index. TABART stands for a data class. Fore more details on this please refer to note #46272. SAP.TPL, export directory, block and file sizes. SAP. – (e.g.001, 002), so called dump files contains the data of all tables of a tabart in a non-platform-specific file format. These are binary files and they should never been changed by any editor. SAP.EXT contains initial sizes for tables and indexes. Not applicable to some RDBMS (e.g. MS SQL Server). SAP.TOC contains position of table data within the corresponded dump file, name of the dump file , time stamp of unload, table rows n