Trouble with time?
A comprehensive overview on handling datetime data in SAP HANA – including timezone conversion, UTC handling and how it relates to JAVA/JDBC.
How to give what you don’t have
The development tools and techniques for SAP HANA have been extended and enhanced a couple of times since SAP HANA had first been released in… Read More »How to give what you don’t have
Maps and Paths
A brief twitter exchange triggered some thoughts about expectations and how those determine whether something is a good A, a passable B or a terrible… Read More »Maps and Paths
Is SAP HANA SQL/SQLScript Turing complete?
There was an interesting (aka nerdy) question in the SAP Community Q&A the other day: “Are SQLScript and HANA SQL Turing complete?” I took a… Read More »Is SAP HANA SQL/SQLScript Turing complete?
Not a New Year’s thing
Happy New Year, dear reader! I hope you had an enjoyable and relaxing time between Christmas and New Years Eve with your thoughts away from… Read More »Not a New Year’s thing
What’s your number?
Have you been using the ISNUMERIC() function of MySQL, MS SQL Server or PostgreSQL and wondered what to use in SAP HANA instead? If so,… Read More »What’s your number?
HANA inverts the Thunderdome law
How HANA is a real-life Mad Max like badass when using user defined functions (UDF)
HANA backtrace 36/2017
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… Read More »HANA backtrace 36/2017
HANA gets stripped
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… Read More »HANA gets stripped
A new feature! YAY!?
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… Read More »A new feature! YAY!?