How do you specify table-specific properties when creating a database table in ADT?

When creating a database table in the ABAP Development Tools (ADT), specifying table-specific properties is fundamentally done through the use of appropriate annotations before the DEFINE TABLE statement. Annotations provide a way to include metadata concerning the table and direct how certain features and characteristics should be handled in the database.

By incorporating these annotations, developers can define behaviors such as primary keys, field types, and additional table properties directly within the code, facilitating a clearer understanding and maintaining a structured approach. This allows the creation of more complex data models while improving readability and maintainability.

Annotations allow for enhanced configurations that might not be evident purely from the code structure alone, making them a crucial part of the table definition process in ADT. Other methods, such as transaction SE16, focus more on data viewing rather than table creation, while the Properties view serves to adjust settings after the table exists instead of during its creation phase. Although annotations in the projection list could be relevant in some contexts, they do not apply specifically to the creation of table properties like the DEFINE TABLE statement does.