ABAP-Getting Started with ABAP Core Data Services (CDS)

https://blogs.sap.com/2016/02/01/getting-started-with-abap-core-data-services/

Latest News: 
2021-01: Beginners guide for CDS Hierarchies – Part 2
2021-01: Beginners guide for CDS Hierarchies – Part 1
2020-09: Virtual Data Model (VDM) and CDS Views in SAP S/4HANA
2020-09: New type of CDS view entity available: CDS Projection views
2020-09: Build composition tree with CDS views
2020-09: CDS view entities – The new CDS views
2020-09: A new generation of CDS views: CDS view entities

Overview

Overview about ABAP Core Data Services CDS – One Concept, Two Flavors

Documentation

• ABAP CDS Development User Guide: On-Premise | Cloud
• ABAP CDS in the ABAP Keyword Documentation: On-Premise | Cloud
• ABAP CDS: Release-specific changes: On-Premise

Basics for Beginners

• What is Code Pushdown? (Code-to-Data paradigm)
• Enhanced ABAP Development with CDS (SAPinsider article)
• Spotlight on ABAP for SAP HANA (Get the big Picture)
• Create your first CDS view(New data modeling infrastructure in ABAP)

Advanced Topics

• From Open SQL Joins to CDS Associations
• Views with Parameters
• Modification-free enhancements using View Extensions
• CDS Table Functions for SAP HANA Breakout Scenarios
• CDS Annotations
• CDS Annotations for Metadata-Driven UIs
• CDS Metadata Extensions
• Access Control with DCL roles
• ABAP Unit Testing with the ABAP CDS Test Double Framework
• Implementation patterns of CDS in SAP S/4HANA
• Virtual Data Model (VDM) and CDS Views in SAP S/4HANA
• A new generation of CDS views: CDS view entities
• CDS view entities – The new CDS views
• Build composition tree with CDS views
• New type of CDS view entity available: CDS projection views
• Beginners guide for CDS Hierarchies – Part 1
• Beginners guide for CDS Hierarchies – Part 2

FAQs, Best Practises, …

• ABAP CDS – Tooling FAQs
• Performance considerations when using ABAP CDS on anyDB
• Boost the performance of ABAP CDS views on SAP HANA – Best practices
• Safeguard Performance of ABAP CDS Views (Blog Post Series)
  • Part 1 – CDS View Complexity
  • Part 2 – SAP HANA SQL Optimizer and Plan Cache
  • Part 3 – Rules for Good Performance of CDS Views
• Best practices about ABAP CDS inside SAP Business Suite (updated on Feb. 7, 2020)
• Best practices about ABAP CDS inside SAP S/4HANA  (updated on Feb. 7, 2020)

Further Information

• Spotlight on ABAP for SAP HANA
• Getting Started with the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP)
• Getting Started with ABAP Programming Model for Fiori Apps (based on CDS & BOPF)
• Free openSAP course: ABAP Development for SAP HANA
• Free openSAP course: Buildings Apps with the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP)
• Videos: ABAP for SAP HANA playlist @Youtube
• CAA104@SAP TechEd 2019 – Optimize Your Custom ABAP Code for SAP HANA
• SAP Education courses: e.g. S4D430 about building views with ABAP CDS,
  HA400 about ABAP programming for SAP HANA

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Last update: July 2021