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People of the ABAP for SAP HANA tribe listen up! Or better: read up! :smile: # When you logged in to your favorite SCN Space, did you notice any change? Read More » Something new, something old…

A common inquiry # Last week I got two very similar question from colleagues in the consulting teams: " […] We created a user (“john” with select / execute privileges on “SYS_BI & SYS_BIC” schema. User can access data… Read More » SAP HANA DBA Ninja vs. GEIGOKAI

Just found this on LinkedIn… Would you want to have your beer produced by someone whose specialisation is also refining and distributing oil and managing waste? What’s more irritating: why would anyone believe this would… Read More » I specialise in everything

I just came across SAP note 1850112 - Changes to technical properties row/column store again and found it to be an interesting and reassuring collection of design decisions taken over time. Read More » Changes to technical properties row/column store

I’ve mentioned it before in a couple of threads and today I am happy to officially and proudly announce: There is now a pack of paper with my name on, available and waiting to be bought by you. Read More » Book Announcement: SAP HANA Administration

Downloading and installing the new revision of SAP HANA is not innovation. Porting your application to in-memory column store technology is not high tech. This is not the bleeding edge. Here we are in commodity land. Read More » This is not High Tech, this is not Innovation

based on SAP HANA rev. 81 Just shortly before my vacation starts I thought I leave you with another pearl of knowledge… *cough*cough* Don’t expect suspense or a proper three act structure - it’s just one of those techie… Read More » Quantum mechanics in SAP HANA?

Seth Godin put it so nicely: Seth’s Blog: Analytics without action " If you’re not prepared to change your diet or your workouts, don’t get on the scale." meaning that if you don’t want to actually do something with the… Read More » Is this the gym you pay for but never actually show up?

Not sure you knew this already, but starting with SPS 8 (seemed to work with Rev. 74 as well), SAP HANA comes with an option to have an IDENTITY column in column store tables. Read More » Quick note on IDENTITY column in SAP HANA

based on SAP HANA revision 74 »> update 09.02.2016 «< If you are trying to work on a similar problem, please make sure to also review the solutions posted in discussion Fetch the first record with 24 hr interval based on… Read More » Of groups of serial shoppers…