COVAD SAP table for – Variant catalog

Here we would like to draw your attention to COVAD table in SAP. As we know it is being mainly used with the SAP CO-PA (Profitability Analysis in CO) component which is coming under CO module (Controlling). COVAD is a SAP standard transparent table used for storing Variant catalog related data in SAP. It comes under the package KE.

SAP COVAD table

Table COVAD technical data

TableCOVAD
Data storingVariant catalog
ModuleCO
ComponentCO-PA
SAP PackageKE
Delivery ClassA – Application table (master and transaction data)
Table CategoryTRANSPARENT

SAP COVAD Table Fields

Here is the details of each fields in this table.You can find the discription, data type and assigned lenth of each of the fields in COVAD table.

  • MANDT : Client
    Its a key field. Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 3
  • AENAME
    Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 12
  • AEDAT : (8-character) Date for SYST
    Its data type is D (Date (Date: YYYYMMDD)) with field length 8
  • AETIME : Last changed at
    Its data type is T (Time (Time: HHMMSS)) with field length 6
  • DVERS
    Its data type is N (Character String with Digits Only) with field length 2
  • APPLCLASS : Application class for DD objects (not used)
    Its a key field. Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 4
  • SUBCLASS : Subgroup by application class
    Its a key field. Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 2
  • TABNAME : Table Name
    Its a key field. Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 30
  • FUNC
    Its a key field. Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 4
  • VARIANT : Variant with which the archiving program was executed
    Its a key field. Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 14
  • ENAME
    Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 12
  • EDAT
    Its data type is D (Date (Date: YYYYMMDD)) with field length 8
  • ETIME : SAP DB: Analysis Time
    Its data type is T (Time (Time: HHMMSS)) with field length 6