SAP TABLE COMP SELECTOR GLOSRY documentation, setup help and example usage

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Column selector
Character ~ . A column ( col ) of a database table ( dbtab ) can be addressed in a SELECT statement by means of dbtab~col . This type of addressing is necessary when multiple database tables are accessed if the name of a column occurs in a number of different database tables or if two columns are compared with each other in a comparison in the WHERE
condition.