Naming Conventions for Tablespaces

The SAP default installation uses the classic Oracle Database tablespace naming conventions to separate the data and index tablespaces in older versions. With the advances in hard disk and memory technologies, these classic conventions have been changed as of SAP Web AS 6.10. Table 20-1 lists the tablespace naming conventions and a brief description of the purpose of the tablespace. In the new naming conventions, the entire SAP ABAP stack is in one tablespace PSAP<SCHEMA-ID> for ABAP systems and PSAP<SCHEMA-ID>DB for Java systems. New features in Oracle Database, such as system managed automatic segment space management, UNDO tablespaces, locally managed SYSTEM tablespace, and default temporary tablespaces, ...

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