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based on HANA rev. 70 World Time Zones Map A question came up about timezone handling in SAP HANA. As you might know SAP HANA offers functions to deal with local time as well as with UTC based time and provides the means… Read More » You got the time?

Let’s do this quick and painless! From SPS 7 (rev. 70.00) SAP HANA doesn’t automatically create concatenated attributes for multi-column-joins anymore. BANG! There you go. Just asked for it (Looking for more info on… Read More » SAP HANA double-0 revision in “A secret present"

Another half year passed and another SAP HANA SP has just been released. SAP HANA 1.0 SPS 7 is out in the wild as revision 70.00 (double zero revision, yes Moneypenny :wink: ) and a lot of things had been changed, added… Read More » HANA SPS 7 first dazzling highlights

If you are the kind of person who rather enjoys listening to people instead of reading through education material, then you might be interested in this: http://events.sap.com/teched/en/session/8596 Behind this link you… Read More » In the words of others…

Let’s keep this brief and simple: I’m going to be at the SAP TechEd EMEA in Amsterdam that will be on next week. I’m going to deliver some sessions there, especially my very own RDP302 Understanding SAP HANA Database… Read More » Meet me at SAP TechEd in Amsterdam

Ok, just a very quick note today with loads of screenshots and only a few lines of text. The core statement is (for the ones with little time to their avail): Read More » Quick note on Plan Visualization in NetWeaver

based on revision 61 of SAP HANA and SAP HANA Studio Dear web-diary… Recently I looked into the execution of a simple information model and discussed it with some fellow CSA guys. Read More » Missing operations in PlanViz? Not for me! (or you)

Dear all! The slide deck for my last weeks Webinar Performance in SAP HANA Databases - Webinar Details are online and can be found here: Performance in SAP HANA Databases - Webinar Presentation. Read More » Advertisment – Webinar “Performance in SAP HANA Databases” slide deck

+++ update 7.10.2015 - SPS 10 Since this blog was originally published some time ago and many SAP HANA revisions passed and there is meanwhile a supported easy way to do housekeeping around trace files. Read More » A little SAP HANA DBA note on too many trace files...

I’ve now been involved with a couple of SAP HANA projects and I am left astounded. # Not only by the impressing performance and flexibility our product delivers for certain use cases. I’m much more astounded by the… Read More » Back in the tar pit?