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Mon, 19 Dec 2022 04:33:45 +0000

Apart from writing blog posts I have written answers to many questions on several Q&A sites like StackOverflow and SAP Community. Some of those answers received good feedback and/or the answer surprised me once I worked it out.

DBeaver log files: beware and free up disk space

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 06:50:02 +0000

Remember my post from earlier in April 2020? (Getting data into HANA - the easy way)

In it, I described how to use DBeaver to load CSV files into HANA quick and hassle-free. For DBeaver activities like importing or exporting data are so-called Database Tasks. For every execution of a task, DBeaver keeps a log file and these log files can be easily accessed via the Database Tasks Eclipse View:

Getting data into HANA - the easy way

Fri, 04 Sep 2020 04:45:21 +0000

In a recent blog post SAP presented several ways to load data into a HANA instance. The main approach shown was to use a combination of Python, SQLAlchemy, and Pandas (a Python data analysis library) as well as the Python-specific version of the SAP HANA client driver.

One in a Million

Sat, 08 Feb 2020 03:45:03 +0000

Q&A forums can be a treasure trove of interesting questions that turn out to have counter-intuitive answers.

In “Why does select statement taking too long when primary key is present?” the OP made an interesting observation:

Merging right. Some tests with data loading in HANA from Down Under.

Mon, 19 Dec 2016 13:00:12 +0000

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

The parameters you know

Fri, 15 May 2015 14:00:54 +0000

The age old question(s) #

It has been a long standing open question for many SAP HANA administrators:

“Where do I find a list of all the parameters that I can set in the .ini files?”

Free stuff! From the SAP HANA book!! Awesome!!!

Fri, 15 May 2015 14:00:18 +0000

Dear readers and fellow SCNers,

being the income-fixated greedy SAP Press author I am, I hardly ever fail to advertise the book Richard Bremer and I wrote and released last year (see Book Announcement: SAP HANA Administration for the whole ball of wax).