Port of Antwerp from the Opendata challenge perspective – part 1
Getting Access to the SAP HANA Cloud Platform trial platformHere is how to register for a developer/trial account: Sign up for an free trial account on SAP HANA Cloud PlatformThis should not take you...
View ArticleEnterprise Readiness with SAP HANA
Data Centers as the “Power Plants” of the digital EconomyData centers are the power plants of today’s businesses. However, planning high availability into a system landscape may often be an overlooked...
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Enterprise Readiness – Planning Your Data CenterAs High Availability and Disaster Recovery become increasingly important topics for many enterprise customers embarking on digitization, we will be...
View ArticlePort of Antwerp from the Opendata challenge perspective – part 2
Now that we have our HANA instance up and running in the SAP HANA Cloud Platform trial platform as described in part 1 of this blog series, we can now start importing CSV like type of data.This dataset...
View ArticlePort of Antwerp from the Opendata challenge perspective – part 3
As stated before HANA does support this format yet with the proper ST_GEOMETRY data type constructor or constructor. So we will need to convert this field to a “Well-Known Text” format.I found a...
View ArticleR Integration with SAP HANA
Once you have installed HANADBClient in your system then you need to setup data source.Go to -> Control Panel -> Search for data Source (ODBC) -> Set up data sources (ODBC)You will get the...
View ArticlePort of Antwerp from the Opendata challenge perspective – part 4
In the last part (part 3), we saw how to import a CSV file into HANA using HANA Studio where we converted the geoJSON filed into WKT, let’s now see how we can take care of the same content but in a...
View ArticleInput parameter based on procedure of type Date
Use case: The user is asked to enter a date. If nothing is specified then it should be default to first day of the current month else user specified value should be used to filter the data, using...
View ArticleSAP HANA 2.0 SPS 00 What’s New: Administration – by the SAP HANA Academy
IntroductionWe will be posting new videos to the SAP HANA Academy to show new features and functionality introduced with SAP HANA 2.0 Support Package Stack (SPS) 00.Tutorial VideoWhat’s New?SAP HANA...
View ArticleDoes your CFO need a real time geolocation report?
In a constantly evolving world, CEOs and CFOs must adapt continuously to their new market dimension. Having access to real time reporting gives a serious advantage on its competitors. Thus, CFOs can...
View ArticleConstant Selection in SAP HANA Using Dynamic Join
In SAP BW, there is this concept of “Constant Selection” where you can mark a selection in the Query Designer as constant. This means that navigation and filtering will have no effect on the selection...
View ArticleInstalling Hana Server (SP12) and XS Advanced Runtime Components
The main purpose of this blog post is to list the steps required to provision a Hana SP12 System as a development server, along with XS Advanced runtime components such as the Database Catalog Tool...
View ArticleLet’s Build an Analytical Card for a Fiori Overview Page (with a HANA Backend)
The Proposed ProcessStep 1: Identify the needStep 2: DesignStep 3: Back-end developmentStep 4: Front-end configuration (or really development at this point)What’s most important (always) is Step 1 and...
View ArticleHow to – Import SFLIGHT sample data into HANA from a local computer
As you discovered few seconds ago, HANA doesn’t come with any preloaded sample data.So, before starting to play with your brand new system, you need to find and load some data.Luckily SAP provides for...
View ArticleSynonyms in HANA XS Advanced, Introduction
Why Synonyms?A complex HANA data warehouse might use several DB schemas in which tables, views and otherDB objects reside. E.g., there might be a replicated ERP schema managed by SLT, a Netweaver/BW...
View ArticleSynonyms in HANA XS Advanced, Accessing Objects in an External Schema
In the previous post I introduced synonyms in XS Advanced (XSA) and created a very simple synonym. Now I will create synonyms pointing to objects I defined by myself.Accessing Objects in a Classical...
View ArticleSynonyms in HANA XS Advanced, Configuration, Templating, Service Replacement
In the previous post I showed the complete end-to-end scenario of using synonyms in XS Advanced. In this post I will show, how more flexibility can be achieved.The flexibility options do not really...
View ArticleDid you know you can add Spatial Reference Systems to HANA?
By default, HANA has 4 preconfigured Spatial Reference Systems (SRS). Two of the preconfigured ones most used are 4326 (WGS 84 Spheroidal) and 1000004326 (WGS 84 Planar). However, there are over 3000...
View ArticleSAP HANA Tools-Modeler and Web IDE (New and Changed) – SAP HANA Platform 2.0...
As of SAP HANA Platform 2.0 SP00, the following new features and changes are available in SAP Web IDE and integrated SAP HANA tools.SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA is a browser-based integrated development...
View ArticleC_HANATEC_11 Certification Guide
All that you need to know about SAP C_HANATEC_11SAP launched HANA Technology primarily based on in-memory expertise with which customers can analyze huge volumes of information and data in flip of...
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