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UPDATE, 04.09.2017 # UPDATE: The HANA documentation has been improved, extended and overhauled a couple of times since the last update to this blog nearly four years ago. Read More » How to setup SAP HANA SQL reference web search with your browser

Dear HANA support activists and those who just happen to have to deal with SAP HANA! When dealing with customer messages a large share of the work is related to collecting required data from the customer’s system. This… Read More » Collecting HANA support information easily

HANA is a great way to waste a lot of money. Yes, I’m serious here. If you decide to implement this new platform at your site but just copy your coding 1:1 to HANA, you’re going to waste money. Read More » Still no silver bullet

Dear all, I haven’t been able to come up with a blog on SCN now for quite some time, just because HANA really keeps me pretty busy. Anyhow, this piece is something I already published SAP internally and since it was well… Read More » Freshly found HANA Studio (rev. 26) treat…

Welcome back to the first instalment of HANA backtrace for 2012. Let’s look at what I’ve seen and heard about SAP HANA lately: Accessing data in a SAP HANA box from ABAP requires the well known database library (DBSL)… Read More » HANA backtrace 05/2012

It’s been a quite busy time for me lately - which is the reason for the not published blog posts recently. I’ve held and participated in a week of HANA related workshops in our US headquarter offices in Newtown Square,… Read More » Courses, Workshops, Certifications and the Future…

Ok, it’s been more than the planned week since my last post in this series (HANA backtrace 44/2011) but these are very busy times lately for a primary support guy like I am. Read More » HANA backtrace 45/2011

This week I’m starting a new blog post series aimed at the readers that are technically interested in SAP HANA but don’t want to spend hours each week checking every new post, article, forum discussion or sap note about… Read More » HANA backtrace 44/2011

+++ UPDATE 23.11.2011 +++ After the release of revision 20 (SPS 03) of the HANA database, some more changes concerning command syntax and system object naming had been identified. The commands in this blog post have been… Read More » HANA backup script hint… a little bit more security, please!

As the fourth quarter of the year started everybody seems to check the goals that had been set for this year and what has already been reached. Looking back on the messages I worked on I found a very clear pattern, when… Read More » How most BW performance support messages are solved