Sqlscript on The Lars Breddemann Blog

Answers Pinboard

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.

SAP HANA middle of the road for Big Data or just average?

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 12:41:02 +0000

When SAP tries to explain HANA as a technology the buzz words “Big Data” have always been part of the story.
Commonly “Big Data with HANA” then gets specified to mean one or another thing - often to caveat what the platform is supposed to be able to do and which usage scenarios require what sort of special handling.

Separate business logic from tables and avoid dynamic SQL

Sun, 15 Nov 2020 06:18:51 +0000

Real programming #

One of the aspects of doing “actual” programming is to automate computations. Making the computer do things not just once, say by running a calculation on the October sales data, but to do it over and over again on any months’ sales data.

How to engineer your DB code

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 00:25:17 +0000

A journey of 1000 miles… #

We are developers. We make the modern world tick and create tools for information workers. We are computer scientists, IT experts, and coders, and we call ourselves engineers. We even renamed a part of our industry “software engineering” to get one step closer to this aspirational goal of being professionals when doing our jobs.

SAP Online Track 2020

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 05:10:02 +0000

On the last weekend in May, just a few days ago, the SAP Online Track was held. A volunteer-driven, online developer, and user event around SAP technology.

https://twitter.com/Sygyzmundovych/status/1250811896737005570

A friendly nudge from Vitaliy Rudnicki (SAP) on twitter in April made me check if I could manage to come up with a talk and write and record it in time for the event. Obviously, this worked out, otherwise, you wouldn’t be reading about it now.

Is SAP HANA SQL/SQLScript Turing complete?

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 01:30:07 +0000

There was an interesting (aka nerdy) question in the SAP Community Q&A the other day:

“Are SQLScript and HANA SQL Turing complete?”

I took a swing at it and the following is my result (a slightly edited version of my original answer).

What's your number?

Wed, 15 Nov 2017 05:05:49 +0000

Have you been using the ISNUMERIC function of MySQL, MS SQL Server or PostgreSQL and wondered what to use in SAP HANA instead? If so, this is the blog post for you.

Eco-friendly slide recycling with HANA

Sun, 02 Apr 2017 14:00:06 +0000

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 prepared in a way that they could be used without my talking as well, I thought, I might just post them. So, there they are on slideshare: