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Happy New Year, dear reader! I hope you had an enjoyable and relaxing time between Christmas and New Years Eve with your thoughts away from work. I can say, I did. Read More » Not a New Year's thing

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. Read More » What's your number?

What to read? Whom to follow? # One of the important things to pick up in any community is finding out who are the people that usually have good, funny or interesting content. Many community platforms make it easy to… Read More » HANA backtrace 36/2017

This is going to be one of those weird blog posts, that basically convey just a single piece of information, but since the new SAP Community platform doesn’t really care for WIKI/document style knowledge storage, I had… Read More » HANA gets stripped

A recent discussion in the SAP internal JAM community for HANA made me aware of a feature added to HANA SQL starting with HANA 1 SPS 12 (don’t ask the revision, just check the latest), respectively HANA 2 SPS 02 (we… Read More » A new feature! YAY!?

… logging! Yes, you just got click-baited into reading this advertisement for a product enhancement idea that I posted: Standard logging facility for SQLScript The idea here is simple: when you write application logic in… Read More » What HANA needs now is some...

If you’re reading this, you are likely aware of the ongoing debates, complaints, failures and the general situation around the SAP Community platform and the state of this very community in general, which is why I am not… Read More » SAP Community? Why?

HANA 2 has been out for a while now - even SP01 of it is available already - so I thought it is about time to get more familiar with it. Using my trusty " skullbox" (HANA in a pocket… ) I installed HANA 2 and realised… Read More » HANA 2 and two riddle errors

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… Read More » Eco-friendly slide recycling with HANA