>>Hey, my PC has over 20,000 files... I back it up all the time.
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>>Speaking of which, I understand SAP R/3 has on the order of 20,000 tables...
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>Can't believe that (at all); SAP is huge, yes, but just try to imagine that 20,000 tables imply -let's say- 10,000 logical entities. Could they exist ?
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>But anyway, if there is someone out there who can justify this, I'll be glad to hear it. Thx,

Most of my references indicate that there are "only" about 8000 SAP tables, and about 800 business processes (if you install all the modules).

A lot of these tables simply contain "lookup" values and descriptions.