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During the past months, HANA made a fairly big wave in the SAP community. Looked like everybody wanted to get the hands onto this and gather some experience with the new piece of technology. With those, tons of questions… Read More » HANA operational concept released to customers

Last week a colleague from the WHM (data warehouse management) support team called me to get some assistance with a customer message he was processing. The customer complained about short dumps with the infamous… Read More » SAP Support case “FOR ALL ENTRIES disaster”

Let’s have a contest! # One of my last blog posts started off a discussion (e.g. Bala posted his thought in a blog) about the importance of the partitioning feature for an SAP BW installation. Read More » Partition count contest!

One of the quotes I like most I learned from Tom Kyte from Oracle. It’s one from Artemus Ward: " It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things you know that just ain’t so." Read More » Short note on Line Item and High Cardinality dimensions

Welcome to the problem As usual understanding, the meaning and the scope of the question is key for the answer to this question, recently filed by a customer. So, what is the customer complaining about? What does he mean… Read More » Question to SAP Support “Why is partition pruning not working in my BW on Oracle?”

Unexpected Behavior # Last week during an Oracle workshop with my primary support colleagues in the GSC Ireland I came across something new (at least to me). This alone is not worthy of writing even a short note, as it… Read More » “Things change for the better” or “How I enhanced the Oracle DBMS software”

Lately, I’ve been confronted with several customer messages concerning problems with Infocube compression, change runs or roll-ups. For some reason, these standard BW actions, that worked the day before, now started to… Read More » BW/DB Support 101 – Get to know your failing SQL statement

Ok, once again reproducing a problem takes a lot of (waiting-)time for the query to finish. In the meantime I can also just write a super-short-blog post about a pretty common BW-on-Oracle performance hunch:… Read More » BW on Oracle: a performance hunch I see more and more often…

In the second week working in BW support, I noticed that there was a problem reported by customers again and again. The customers complained about “database statistics update fails in process chains” or “brconnect run… Read More » A first (BW) issue…

As some of you might have noticed, I haven’t been too active in the DB/OS forums lately. This is because I moved on to a new support team and a new subject for me back in September. Yes, I took the giant leap and moved… Read More » New shores in sight…