It seems your syntax is not classic ABAP, because it would not compile. Are you sure this is ABAP? Could you paste a few lines from your "ABAP" source code before and after your SELECT statement?
Message was edited by: Sandra Rossi Update: I think I understood what you did: It could compile (surrounded by something), but & is not an operator but a continuation character of text literal, and it's limited to 255 characters. Moreover you can't insert variables. Instead, you should use the && operator (>=7.02).