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In case you ever got frustrated by how 80’s like the SAP HANA hints infrastructure looks like, go and support my improvement idea on SAP Idea place: https://ideas.sap.com/D40094 Go and upvote! Now! :) Read More » Make query hints great again...

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

SCN is coming to an end as we all know and apparently I managed to get through early. All missions completed and highest level reached. Now, that leaves a feeling of achievement, even early in the week :grin: Read More » I’m done (apparently) – see y’all

DISCLAIMER: this blog describes unsupported and unlicensed use of the SAP HANA software. I describe my personal try-out of a hardware/software combination. It’s not in any way meant to be used productively or recommended… Read More » HANA in a pocket, a skull and some dirty hands on Linux

Based on SAP HANA SPS 11 Update 1.6.2017 # Retesting the APPLY_FILTER() approach on rev. 112.07 showed that it is now possible to simply hand APPLY_FILTER() an IN condition with a list of integers. Read More » On multiple mistakes with IN conditions

Far fetched… # A colleague asked me over a year ago (2015 and SPS 9 … sounds ancient now, I know) whether it is possible to leverage information models in a different SAP HANA instance via SDA (Smart Data Access - look… Read More » Modelling Learning Double Action or two things I just learned about modelling in SAP HANA SPS 11

Dear SAP HANA aficionados If have not been living under a stone lately and visited the SAP HANA corners of SCN (SAP HANA and In-Memory Computing, SAP HANA Developer Center) recently you surely will have noticed that… Read More » SAP HANA community alert 260416: new moderator aboard

Today’s tidbit is one of those little dumb things that happen every now and then and when I think: “Great, now this doesn’t work… WTF…?” Usually that’s a bit frustrating for me as I like to think that I know how stuff… Read More » *click* – *click* – *doubleclick* and nothing happens

Fellow Community members, readers and otherwise interested! Today I share a change in the organisation of this community. Last week I returned the moderator and space editor privileges and the duties that come with… Read More » Things keep changing around here!

Fresh out of the Christmas/New Year vacation I yesterday received this question from one of my colleagues: Hi Lars I am trying to set up a demo to show MDC at FKOM. I am trying to configure MDC via the Python script… Read More » HANA dude analyses Python error and this happened next… (plus: something with Andy Warhol)