Recent question on SCN about the ABAP memory allocation, inspired me to do some reading and research on how memory is allocated for variables in ABAP programs.

With ABAP release 731, you have && which can be used instead of CONCATENATE. You also have & which seems to be doing the same job. So what is the difference?

String Templates are introduced in SAP with ABAP release 731.

ABAP Database Connectivity also known as ADBC provides Object Oriented approach to access the database. You can also access the DB dynamically using the ADBC.

ABAP New Debugger has few more additions to the debugger as well. Since ABAP Release 731, you can skip the breakpoints.

ABAP New Debugger has few more additions to the debugger as well. Since ABAP release 731 which is delivered as part of ECC 6 EhP6 Release 7 EhP6, you can have conditional breakpoints.