ST12 - Schedule Traces
Consultants or Support Consultants like me know this situation quite well: You are at a customer and you are asked to trace and analyze a background job which runs outside of office hours e.g. from 04:00 am to 04:30 am. This blog will show you how to have a good and non-disrupted sleep at night WHILE the job will be traced automatically by ST12.  Dec. 12, 2011
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ST12 - 01N_* SP1 new features
The Single Transaction Analysis was extended recently and has some great new features. This blog shows you what you can expect from the latest patch. An overview of the new features is presented in this blog. Dec. 7, 2011
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ST12 - new features
The Single Transaction Analysis was extended recently and has some great new features. This blog shows you what you can expect from the latest version. Mar. 23, 2011
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ST12 – Who calls whom (get the call stack with bottom up analysis)
This blog explains how to retrieve a call stack for any given call in ST12. This so called bottom up analysis is often very helpful when you want to understand who drives the number of calls of a specific statement. Aug. 23, 2010
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Explaining the explain plan for DB6 – Basics Part 2
This blog is a co-operation with my colleague Jan Kritter from the DB6 performance team. This time we will explain the difference between an explain plan with parameter markers and values. Furthermore an outlook on the test execution will be shown. Jul. 9, 2010
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ST12 - tracing function modules
In this blog we will explain how to trace a function module in ST12. We will use the “Particular Units” option in ST12.  May. 18, 2010
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ST12 - tracing a single dialog step
Imagine you change an order in VA02 and after clicking a specific button (e.g. the ATP (available to promise) check) it takes a while. Now you wonder what happens when you click this button and how you could trace exactly this click. May. 17, 2010
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Explaining the explain plan for DB6 – Basics Part 1
This blog is a co-operation with my colleague Jan Kritter from the DB6 performance team. We will explain the "explain (plan)" function for DB6 in the SAP environment. Furthermore the basic options in the execution plan view will be explained. Apr. 22, 2010
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ST12 – tracing user requests (Tasks & HTTP)
Imagine a user calls you because he experiences a long response time when he clicks on a specific button in a specific application. This application might be a classic ABAP Dynpro, ABAP Web Dynpro or BSP application. You decide to trace that action, but how will you do that? This time we use ST12 to perform a simultaneous ABAP and SQL Trace for user requests. You can use the same scenario for incoming RFC requests as well. Mar. 22, 2010
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Explaining the explain plan
This blog will explain the “explain (plan)” function in the SAP environment that can be used to obtain the execution plan of an SQL or DML statement. For performance analysis it is important to find, read, and understand the content of the execution plan. We will start with a general explanation of the explain plan and what you can expect to find inside. Mar. 4, 2010
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ST12 - storing additional information and managing traces
In other blogs it was mentioned that ST12 only stores the ABAP trace in the database. While this is true there is an option which allows you to store additional information e.g. the summary of a SQL trace and additional information manually together with the trace. This blog shows this option together with some hints on how to manage the collected traces. Oct. 30, 2009
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ST12 - The workprocess trace
Imagine you started a program which runs longer then you expected. The program is still running and you wonder what the program is doing. This time we use ST12 to perform a workprocess trace.... Sep. 22, 2009
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Single Transaction Analysis (ST12) – getting started
ST12 integrates the ABAP- (SE30) and the Performance (ST05) Trace into one transaction. This blog will show how to take a trace with ST12 in the so called “Current Mode” scenario. Sep. 8, 2009
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