SAP(R) R/3(R) Administration [Hardcover]

Liane Will (Author), Frank Strabenburg (Author), Jason Miskuly (Translator)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0201924692 | ISBN-13: 978-0201924695 | Publication Date: December 1997 | Edition: Har/Dskt

If you are responsible for the administration of an SAP R/3 system, or would like to know more about it, this book will show you how to exploit the potential of the R/3 system to maximum effect. SAP R/3 Administration provides a detailed explanation of the technological basis and the development environment of the R/3 system and practical guidance on performance tuning the R/3 system. This book provides detailed coverage of the organization and operation of the R/3 system and the transport system that monitors, coordinates and logs access to system data. It explains the fundamentals of ABAP/4, the programming language at the heart of the SAP R/3 system, and shows how to program simple reports and understand ABAP/4 programs. With this book you will learn how to: *monitor and maintain a live R/3 syste *understand different types of R/3 system, exchange objects between these systems and control modifications to the use *use the CCMS (computer center management system) to observe R/3 operation and evaluate and avoid potential problems early on.The authors have drawn on their own considerable experience in customer support to provide this comprehensive, practical guide to the administration and performance tuning of the SAP R/3 system. While you do not have to have any prior knowledge of the R/3 system to read this book, it is assumed that you will have some previous experience of relational database management systems and SQL. An accompanying disk contains R/3 transport data for the examples featured in the book and is described in Appendix G.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

From the Back Cover

SAP R/3 Administration provides a detailed explanation of the technological basis and the development environment of the R/3 system and practical guidance on performance tuning.

This book provides detailed coverage of the organization and operation of the R/3 system and the transport system that monitors, coordinates and logs access to system data. It explains the fundamentals of ABAP/4, the programming language at the heart of the SAP R/3 system, and shows how to program simple reports and understand ABAP/4 programs.

With this book you will learn how to: monitor and maintain a live R/3 system understand different types of R/3 systems, exchange objects between these systems and control modifications to the user use the CCMS (computer center management system) to observe R/3 operation and evaluate and avoid potential problems early on.

The authors have drawn on their own considerable experience in customer support to provide this comprehensive, practical guide to the administration and performance tuning of the SAP R/3 system. While you do not have to have any prior knowledge of the R/3 system to read this book, it is assumed that you will have some previous experience of relational database management systems and SQL.

An accompanying disk contains R/3 transport data for the examples featured in the book and is described in Appendix G. 0201924692B04062001

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company; Har/Dskt edition (December 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201924692
• ISBN-13: 978-0201924695
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,831,259 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Outdated, neither for advanced user nor beginner, October 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: SAP(R) R/3(R) Administration (Hardcover)

Most of the content is tailored for SAP R/3 Release 3 and it contains several descriptions and references to Release 2.2.

The massive use of SAP terminology will be very confusing for SAP newbies. The diagrams are very dry and don't offer much additional insights into the concepts described in the text.

For experienced SAP adminstrators the book is just too thin to be of any use. Better go for the 900+ pages SAP handbook.

The translation from the German original is quite mediocre. On several occasions you can see the original shine through. Most of the presented examples contain German names for tables, fields or variables. For readers without knowledge of the German language some of the examples could be quite hard to understand (I'm German myself so no problem here).

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A disappointment; based on older releases, November 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: SAP(R) R/3(R) Administration (Hardcover)

Bought it and returned it shortly thereafter. This book is very basic, has no depth where one typically needs it, and covers a limited range of topics. Not much better than the basic Help provided by the software. Most disappointing is the fact that the book is based on releases 3.0 and earlier. Not worth the money.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars SAP on-line help is far better!, December 29, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: SAP(R) R/3(R) Administration (Hardcover)

This a badly translated book, i.e. not written originally in English. The book does not have a focal point. It is only abstracts form the on-line help. Does not worth the money.