XS AppSite Development on SAP HANA - now the fun really starts!
One of the new less talked about features in SAP HANA SP6+ I would say is the concept of the XS Application Site. It is still under development for the platform and is far from being perfect however if...
View ArticlePredicting My Next Twitter Follower with SAP HANA PAL
I am very lazy when it comes to social networks, I would love to have thousands of followers in Twitter, but I don’t have the will to tweet frequently enough to grow my number of followers. Regardless...
View ArticleRunning R inside SAP HANA Studio
*DANGER* This is just a silly blog and shouldn't be taken any seriously.*DANGER* Ok...you may wonder...why is Blag writing a silly blog? Well...I'm a Developer Evangelist...and it's my job to keep...
View ArticleKeep playing with HANA: Any polygon area.
Surely you remember you geometry classes. Don't you? When you want to calculate the area of a polygon, there already exist formulas for the regular ones: the square, the triangle, pentagon... but, what...
View ArticleLet's build a robot! Part 1: Let there be light
Excuse the expression, but men's urinals are smarter than computers. Computers are isolated from what's around them.Alex Pentland, academic head of the MIT Media Laboratory I still remember the time I...
View ArticleSAP Developer Advisory Board : Launched!
SAP launched itsDeveloper Advisory Board (DAB)on September 12th2013 in Palo Alto. The DAB was established to provide feedback and recommendations about SAP's Developer Programs.The DAB is currently...
View ArticleLet's build a robot! Part 2: Will you listen to me?
Arduino kits for beginners contain plenty of sensors. Mine contains a temperature sensor, an ambient light sensor, buttons, flex sensors, potentiometers and so on. You can write programs that read the...
View ArticleHANA Talk - A Simple HANA XS helper
HANA Talk is a small Javascript class which help facilitate the communication between your front end html/js files and HANA database when using SAP HANA XS Engine. This is intended to help people who...
View ArticleHANA Memory usage
During the development process, we are often the question arises: what is using memory at the moment? Well, we have a little request which helps in part to answer it: select HOST, COMPONENT,...
View ArticleAnalyzing Wikipedia Data with SAP Lumira
In this final post in the series, we will analyze the Wikipedia data that we originally filtered using AWS Elastic Map Reduce and Apache Hive, then loaded the transformed data into a SAP HANA database...
View ArticleUsing Spot Instances with SAP HANA on AWS Cloud
===================================================================================================================Update: Nov 16, 2013: I was notified by the SAP CAL Product Owner that accessing SAP...
View ArticleTips for reducing AWS Cloud Hosting Charges
AWS Acronyms: AWS - Amazon Web ServicesAMI - Amazon Machine ImageEBS - Elastic Block Storage 1) Use Spot Instances whenever possible: You may create spot instances from normal AWS instances and then...
View ArticleUsing Spot Instances with SAP HANA on AWS Cloud -- Part II
This blog is a continuation of this blog: http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana/blog/2013/11/11/using-aws-spot-instances-with-sap-cal Step VI: Spot Instance Termination: Sport Instance...
View ArticleHANA Artifacts Part4.1(Attribute Views)
You can access my previous documents in the below links:-HANA Artifacts Part1 http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/Snippets/HANA+Artifacts+Part1HANA Artifacts Part1 Continued...
View ArticleHANA Artifacts Part4.2 (Analytic Views)
In my last document we created an attribute view http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana/blog/2013/11/12/hana-artifacts-part4.Now we will move to the next HANA specific view i.e. Analytic...
View ArticleHANA Artifacts Part4.3(Calculation Views)
In my last document we created 03 analytic views ref: http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana/blog/2013/11/13/hana-artifacts-part42-analytic-views. Now we will move to the next HANA specific...
View ArticleRecipe to model Decision Table on SAP HANA
This blog is to take you through some key features in ‘Rules on SAP HANA’ by taking ‘Discount Rules’ scenario in Car sales where Car manufacturers have certain rules to give various discounts to the...
View ArticleDifference between SAP HANA Cloud and SAP HANA
What is actually the difference between the SAP HANA Cloud (hanatrial.ondemand.com) and the SAP HANA (where the registration is at this moment not available? http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-31600) We plan...
View ArticleJoin me: November 25, SAP Mentors Monday Webcast about SAP HANA UI...
During the last SAP TechEd we got more and more interest (especially from within the mentors community, but not only…) in the new UI services which are embedded within SAP HANA - SAP HANA UI...
View ArticleLatest Share Prices: Google Finance & ODATA CRUD
Inspired by http://ftse.richardallen.co.uk/ I thought it by interesting to use Google Spreadsheet & Google Finance Functions to publish a JSON feed of the latest share prices (or at least...
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