SAP HANA

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… Read More » 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… Read More » 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! :) Read More » 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 Read More » Merging right. Some tests with data loading in HANA from Down Under.

DISCLAIMER: this blog describes unsupported and unlicensed use of the SAP HANA software. I describe my personal try-out of a hardware/software combination. It’s not in any way meant to be used productively or recommended… Read More » HANA in a pocket, a skull and some dirty hands on Linux

Hello HANA community! As of last week, we are happy to have a new moderator in our team: Michael Healy Michael lives and works in Dublin, Ireland and works in the SAP Digital Business Services group helping customers… Read More » SAP HANA community continues to grow and so does the moderator team

Based on SAP HANA SPS 11 Update 1.6.2017 # Retesting the APPLY_FILTER() approach on rev. 112.07 showed that it is now possible to simply hand APPLY_FILTER() an IN condition with a list of integers. Read More » On multiple mistakes with IN conditions

Far fetched… # A colleague asked me over a year ago (2015 and SPS 9 … sounds ancient now, I know) whether it is possible to leverage information models in a different SAP HANA instance via SDA (Smart Data Access - look… Read More » Modelling Learning Double Action or two things I just learned about modelling in SAP HANA SPS 11

Today’s tidbit is one of those little dumb things that happen every now and then and when I think: “Great, now this doesn’t work… WTF…?” Usually that’s a bit frustrating for me as I like to think that I know how stuff… Read More » *click* – *click* – *doubleclick* and nothing happens

Fresh out of the Christmas/New Year vacation I yesterday received this question from one of my colleagues: Hi Lars I am trying to set up a demo to show MDC at FKOM. I am trying to configure MDC via the Python script… Read More » HANA dude analyses Python error and this happened next… (plus: something with Andy Warhol)