I’ve mentioned it before in a couple of threads and today I am happy to officially and proudly announce: There is now a pack of paper with my name on, available and waiting to be bought by you. Read More » Book Announcement: SAP HANA Administration

Downloading and installing the new revision of SAP HANA is not innovation. Porting your application to in-memory column store technology is not high tech. This is not the bleeding edge. Here we are in commodity land. Read More » This is not High Tech, this is not Innovation

based on SAP HANA rev. 81 Just shortly before my vacation starts I thought I leave you with another pearl of knowledge… *cough*cough* Don’t expect suspense or a proper three act structure - it’s just one of those techie… Read More » Quantum mechanics in SAP HANA?

Seth Godin put it so nicely: Seth’s Blog: Analytics without action " If you’re not prepared to change your diet or your workouts, don’t get on the scale." meaning that if you don’t want to actually do something with the… Read More » Is this the gym you pay for but never actually show up?

Not sure you knew this already, but starting with SPS 8 (seemed to work with Rev. 74 as well), SAP HANA comes with an option to have an IDENTITY column in column store tables. Read More » Quick note on IDENTITY column in SAP HANA

based on SAP HANA revision 74 »> update 09.02.2016 «< If you are trying to work on a similar problem, please make sure to also review the solutions posted in discussion Fetch the first record with 24 hr interval based on… Read More » Of groups of serial shoppers…

based on HANA rev. 70 World Time Zones Map A question came up about timezone handling in SAP HANA. As you might know SAP HANA offers functions to deal with local time as well as with UTC based time and provides the means… Read More » You got the time?

Let’s do this quick and painless! From SPS 7 (rev. 70.00) SAP HANA doesn’t automatically create concatenated attributes for multi-column-joins anymore. BANG! There you go. Just asked for it (Looking for more info on… Read More » SAP HANA double-0 revision in “A secret present"

Another half year passed and another SAP HANA SP has just been released. SAP HANA 1.0 SPS 7 is out in the wild as revision 70.00 (double zero revision, yes Moneypenny :wink: ) and a lot of things had been changed, added… Read More » HANA SPS 7 first dazzling highlights

If you are the kind of person who rather enjoys listening to people instead of reading through education material, then you might be interested in this: http://events.sap.com/teched/en/session/8596 Behind this link you… Read More » In the words of others…