How are you going to adopt HANA – Searching for a (Serial) Killer
You will notice in the title that I have asked howyou will use SAP HANA, not if you will use SAP HANA. This may not be true for all the readers of this blog, but those who currently have an investment...
View ArticleBattling with Privileges
As the Beasty Boys once pointed out "You gotta fight for your right (to party)". Well if you want to party with HANA views and tables it helps to know how to handle privileges. Problem 1: Data Preview...
View ArticleWhat can you do with Decision Tables in SAP HANA SP05
With the advent of SAP HANA, more and more calculation & application logic are pushed to the database layer for faster results by leveraging the power of the multi-core CPU's. But during such a...
View ArticleFrom ERP to SAP HANA (Small ABAP App)
Disclaimer: This is a personal project. It's not endorsed or supported by SAP in any means. It's not aimed or supposed to replace any SAP migration tool. It's just something I did for fun and it's...
View ArticleBuilding out a reliable infrastructure on AWS - See how Obama for America...
On Thursday Jan 17 2013, AWS is having a webinar on scalable database architectures - http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/01/webinar-scalable-database-architectures.html This group of "bearded geeks" -...
View ArticleWhere to look for the latest SAP HANA information?
I have to admit, I'm still having problems navigating around the different SAP HANA community sites. There is one for developers using AWS for free, another for developers who use SAP HANA One from the...
View ArticlePHP rocks on SAP HANA too!
A couple of days ago, a friend told me that some people were trying to make PHP and SAP HANA work without having any success...of course...I took that as my new goal...I haven't done any PHP is a very...
View ArticleREST your Models on SAP HANA XS
The aim of this blog is to provide details on how to expose SAP HANA modeled views through SAP HANA Extended Application Services (SAP HANA XS). The information shared within the blog does require some...
View ArticleHANA quick note - checking my connections and using them securely ...
based on revision 48 (SPS 5) of SAP HANA Studio and Database I just browsed throught the updated SAP HANA Developer Guide, SPS 05, Ver. 1.1, 21.12.2012 (really that date? not even 12.12.12? :-) ) and...
View ArticleCodeJam - SAP HANA
I have successfully delivered two SAP Code Jams...one in Montreal and the other in Lima. For that, I created a Workbook so everyone could gain experience and follow up on the Hands-On section of the...
View ArticleSAP HANA PAL - How to use the Apriori Algorithm
PAL is an optional component from SAP HANA and the main porpoise of PAL is to enable the modelers to perform predictive analysis over big volumes of data. Currently, PAL includes classic and universal...
View ArticleNo need to stop the SAP HANA database before stopping the AWS instance with SPS5
Why the SAP HANA development team rocks - they are fixing bugs! Back in November, I wrote a blog post...
View ArticlePHP rocks on SAP HANA too! (Linux version)
If you know me...you know I'm not a Linux boy...however...I still have my laptop LG T1 Express Dual that I bought on 2007...for my first SAP TechEd ever...as you may assume...running Windows and...
View ArticleWhen I traveled through time using SAP HANA!!
Yes! SAP HANA can make time travel happen. Literally!!(Image source: http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/26500000/Back-To-The-Future-Trilogy-back-to-the-future-26581615-1014-574.jpg) During our...
View ArticleSAP HANA Developer Experience: My Perspective
John Appleby had written a post reviewing the developer experience for SAP HANA and comparing it with other database vendors. Read John’s blog here.As a developer and HANA Startup Advocate who...
View ArticleA Shiny example - SAP HANA, R and Shiny
As you may already know...I love R...a fancy, open source statistics programming language. So today, I decided to learn something new using R. There aren't much Web Servers for R, but there's one that...
View ArticleFrom Harvard with SAP HANA - A success story
Some time ago, I was contacted by a Harvard student called Hung Tran. Hung was working on a project involving SAP HANA and R, and he needed some guidance and help with some procedures. Of course, I...
View ArticleWhen SAP HANA met R - What's new?
Since I wrote my blog When SAP HANA met R - First kiss I had received a lot of nice feedback...and one those feedbacks was..."What's new?"... Well...as you might now SAP HANA works with R by using...
View ArticleHANA UI Integration Services? What's that?
With SAP HANA SP5 we introduced the so called HANA Extended Application Services (short: SAP HANA XS) which provide a full featured application- and web-server as well as a development environment...
View ArticlePowerBuilder and R get together
The other day I was thinking about writing a blog using PowerBuilder, but couldn't decide which one other technology I should integrate it...of course...R came to my mind... My journey started around 4...
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