What to read? Whom to follow? One of the important things to pick up in any community is finding out who are the people that usually have good, funny or interesting content. Many community platforms make it easy to find out who are the “leading contributors”, the “heroes”, “aces” etc.Currently, the platform SAP Community is … HANA backtrace 36/2017
This is going to be one of those weird blog posts, that basically convey just a single piece of information, but since the new SAP Community platform doesn’t really care for WIKI/document style knowledge storage, I had to come up with a click-bait title to make it a blog post. I’ve written before on installing … HANA gets stripped
A recent discussion in the SAP internal JAM community for HANA made me aware of a feature added to HANA SQL starting with HANA 1 SPS 12 (don’t ask the revision, just check the latest), respectively HANA 2 SPS 02 (we don’t speak about SPS 00 and SPS 01, do we?): “calculated columns”. Generated <> … A new feature! YAY!?
… logging! Yes, you just got click-baited into reading this advertisement for a product enhancement idea that I posted: Standard logging facility for SQLScript The idea here is simple: when you write application logic in SQLScript then you very likely want to have the option to log what your program does. This is not the logging I … What HANA needs now is some…
If you’re reading this, you are likely aware of the ongoing debates, complaints, failures and the general situation around the SAP Community platform and the state of this very community in general, which is why I am not going to point out the many technical and organisational deficiencies. Others have done that well and often. … SAP Community? Why?
HANA 2 has been out for a while now – even SP01 of it is available already – so I thought it is about time to get more familiar with it. Using my trusty “skullbox” (HANA in a pocket… ) I installed HANA 2 and realised that I now also will have to have a … HANA 2 and two riddle errors
Hey there! I recently presented a short session on my experiences with developing and debugging non-classic-SAP HANA solutions at the Leading Insights conference in Melbourne (27./28.3.2017). And since the slides are prepared in a way that they could be used without my talking as well, I thought, I might just post them. So, there they … Eco-friendly slide recycling with HANA
In case you ever got frustrated by how 80’s like the SAP HANA hints infrastructure looks like, go and support my improvement idea on SAP Idea place: https://ideas.sap.com/D40094 Go and upvote! Now! 🙂 [Update 23.1.2017]: After some of the folks that I really liked to review my idea reported that they don’t have access to it, … Make query hints great again…
Based on SAP HANA SPS 12 (HCP trial) When Jody Hesch recently send me an email with a question about HANA, he received what everyone receives when sending email questions about HANA. The reply is a version of “Usually I don’t do email Q&A as this simply doesn’t help with knowledge sharing. Instead, I advise everyone … Merging right. Some tests with data loading in HANA from Down Under.
SCN is coming to an end as we all know and apparently I managed to get through early. All missions completed and highest level reached. Now, that leaves a feeling of achievement, even early in the week 😀 Having this big achievement under my belt, I am a bit disappointed. No final fight, no end … I’m done (apparently) – see y’all
