SAP UPDATE - Obsolete ABAP Statements

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• UPDATE dbtab - short form ABAP_SQL_STATEMENT_OBS

UPDATE dbtab, Short Form
Short Reference

ABAP_SYNTAX_OBS
UPDATE ${ dbtab $| *dbtab $} ...

What does it do?
This statement is a short form of the following AB-SQL statement for accessing an individual database table dbtab:
UPDATE dbtab FROM ${ dbtab $| *dbtab $} ...
The explicit specification of a work area is missing in the short form. A table work area dbtab or *dbtab is used implicitly as the work area. The table work area must be declared using TABLES. If the name *dbtab is used instead of the name of the database table dbtab, dbtab is accessed, but the additional table work area is used.