How to engineer your DB code
See how to choose between different implementation options for your DB code like an engineer.
Also: JMeter, htop, and MapMerge programming.
What a 10x network speed difference looks like
Get 10x better network speed improvement by using a crazy little piece of equipment. It looks like this…
Getting data into HANA – the easy way
Loading data into SAP HANA the super easy way. A click-through. How to use DBeaver to load huge CSV data files quick without any coding.
What is CPB+-Tree in SAP HANA?
Ever wondered what a CPB+tree is and what it does in SAP HANA? This post has the answer for you.
SAP Online Track 2020
The SAP Online Track event was a major success.
Find my talk “If your SQL reads like Assembler you’re doing it all wrong.” here.
Find the ONE … or the other
Some “finger-exercises” in data modeling, SQL programming, and making sense of ABAP design decisions.
Using new features not supported?!
What do you do when HANA tells you that the new feature you want to use is actually not supported?
This post has an answer for that.
Matchmaker – quick quick?
You’ve come up with a clever SQL to solve a problem but now you want to make it fast?
No worries! This post shows how I shaved off 50% runtime and memory by copy & paste.
Matchmaker
Finding alternative order-documents where the lineitems match a certain percentage of a reference document? In SQL? With no cursors? See how it’s done!
Be careful with dates and timestamps
Ever mixed timestamps and dates and wondered why your result wasn’t quite what you expected?
Find one possible answer to this in this blog post.