Welcome back to the first instalment of HANA backtrace for 2012. Let’s look at what I’ve seen and heard about SAP HANA lately: Accessing data in a SAP HANA box from ABAP requires the well known database library (DBSL)… Read More » HANA backtrace 05/2012

It’s been a quite busy time for me lately - which is the reason for the not published blog posts recently. I’ve held and participated in a week of HANA related workshops in our US headquarter offices in Newtown Square,… Read More » Courses, Workshops, Certifications and the Future…

Ok, it’s been more than the planned week since my last post in this series (HANA backtrace 44/2011) but these are very busy times lately for a primary support guy like I am. Read More » HANA backtrace 45/2011

This week I’m starting a new blog post series aimed at the readers that are technically interested in SAP HANA but don’t want to spend hours each week checking every new post, article, forum discussion or sap note about… Read More » HANA backtrace 44/2011

+++ UPDATE 23.11.2011 +++ After the release of revision 20 (SPS 03) of the HANA database, some more changes concerning command syntax and system object naming had been identified. The commands in this blog post have been… Read More » HANA backup script hint… a little bit more security, please!

As the fourth quarter of the year started everybody seems to check the goals that had been set for this year and what has already been reached. Looking back on the messages I worked on I found a very clear pattern, when… Read More » How most BW performance support messages are solved

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