Review 10. HANA Tech Night & SAP CodeJam
17. June 2024
The cover picture of the article symbolises the day: HANA Tech Night is celebrating its 10th birthday. And as with every HTN, there will be…
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Cheat Sheet - Modern ABAP
21. April 2023
Cheat Sheet Modern ABAP The ABAP language has evolved tremendously since NetWeaver ABAP 7.40. Many new language constructs have been added…
AMDP Coding Guidelines
12. July 2022
These AMDP programming guidelines are a proposal for ABAP and SAP BW projects. They were originally written for the use case of AMDP…
GUID and UUID in SAP HANA
26. January 2022
You will often encounter GUID and UUID in SAP HANA and in S/4HANA as key fields. As long as these do not have to be interpreted or…
AMDP debugging in transformation routines
25. January 2022
With AMDP debugging in transformation routines on BW/4HANA, errors can be easily found. An excerpt from my book "SQLScript for SAP HANA…
HANA SQLScript Transformation Routines in BW/4HANA - an example
25. January 2022
In this blog post, I would like to share a small example of an AMDP aka. HANA Script or AMDP Script ((Actually there is no HANA Script or…
AMDP procedures
24. January 2022
With AMDP procedures, ABAP can easily and elegantly outsource more complex requirements in the SAP HANA database. An excerpt from the 2nd…
The AMDP Framework
24. January 2022
The AMDP framework provides an easy way to use database procedures in SQLScript, in ABAP programs and in BW transformation routines. An…
Embedded Analytics with CDS Queries - with Query Template
20. January 2022
What are CDS Queries? CDS queries can only read data from CDS InfoProviders Reporting directly in the transactional ERP system (e.g. S/4HANA…
CDS InfoProvider - The solid basis for Embedded Analytics in S/4HANA
18. January 2022
The CDS InfoProvider Views form a modeling layer that serves as the starting point for Embedded Analytics in S/4HANA with CDS queries…
The different CDS View types
17. January 2022
Unfortunately, in the official SAP documentation there is no clear definition of designations to the CDS View types concerning their…
Cheat Sheet CDS ABAP
14. January 2022
Cheat Sheet CDS ABAP The perfect complement to Brandeis Consulting's training courses This cheat sheet contains a comprehensive overview of…
The 2nd edition of SQLScript for SAP HANA is now available.
17. September 2021
Officially, the 2nd edition of SQLScript for SAP HANA, the English edition of my book, has been available since mid-August. Today I received…
The HANA Web Console from Brandeis Consulting
14. September 2021
The HANA Web-Console (HWC) from Brandeis Consulting is the quick entry into SQLScript programming on the SAP HANA database . For trainings…
The 2nd edition of SQLScript for SAP HANA will be published in August
19. July 2021
The 2nd edition of the English edition of SQLScript for SAP HANA is scheduled for release on August 26, 2021. The issue is updated and…
The ABAPVARCHARMODE: Blanks and Empty Strings in ABAP and SQLScript
21. April 2021
The two SAP programming languages ABAP and SQLScript (aka. HANA SQL) behave differently when it comes to processing strings with blanks…
HANA Express images deleted in the cloud
16. January 2021
SAP has unfortunately decided to stop making its VM images of the free HANA Express , which were previously available in the cloud from…
SQL Expressions in BW/4HANA Composite Provider (HCPR)
16. January 2021
With the SPS04 for BW / 4HANA 2.0, SAP has built some useful features into the composite provider (list of new features in the SAP…
Cheat Sheet - The SAP HANA SQLScript Overview
29. December 2020
Cheat Sheet - The SAP HANA SQLScript Overview This SQLScript Overview is the perfect complement to the training of Brandeis Consulting…
AMDP (ABAP Managed Database Procedures)
18. November 2020
With the ABAP Managed Database Procedures, or AMDP for short, SAP succeeds in making the performance of the SAP HANA database in ABAP…
Reusing Business Logic in AMDP Transformation Routines
18. November 2020
Last week I read Lars Breddemann's great article about separating business logic from the underlying database tables without using…
Treat unallowed characters in SAP BW/4HANA with SQLScript
6. November 2020
With SQLScript, errors can be avoided elegantly and performantly during loading due to the unallowed (i.e. invalid) characters in SAP BW…
Why are scalar UDFs so slow?
29. October 2020
When loading data from source systems, there are requirements in SAP BW that are often repeated at the field level. This includes, above all…
Neo environment will be switched off
16. August 2020
The Neo environment of the SAP Cloud Platform will be switched off on November 14th! This also means that a popular opportunity to create a…
SQLScript Unit Tests, the End-User Test Framework
11. May 2020
With version 2.0 SPS04 of the SAP HANA database, the so-called "End-User Test Framework in SQLScript" was introduced. This makes it possible…
User Defined Libraries (UDL) in SQLScript
19. November 2019
SAP HANA 2.0 SPS03 introduced the concept of User Defined Libraries (UDL) in SQLScript . It enables us as developers to bundle several…
Anonymous Functions in SQLScript
8. November 2019
With SAP HANA 2.0 SPS04, another feature has been added to the SQLScript language: The embedded functions . These enable the use of…
Recursive procedure calls in SQLScript
5. November 2019
Up to SAP HANA 2.0 SPS03 recursive calls in SQLScript were not allowed. This means that a procedure may not call itself either directly or…
Optimal Package Size for DTPs in BW/4HANA
24. October 2019
With BW/4HANA 2.0 I observed that the packet size of the DTPs is dynamically suggested by the system. Figure 1 shows, for example, a…
BW/4HANA Cockpit - Where is the Administration in the SAP GUI?
22. October 2019
BW/4HANA 2.0 no longer supports the administration of InfoProviders and requests in the SAP GUI. Instead, a browser window with the SAP BW…
Uploading Transport Requests to an SAP CAL System
12. July 2019
In the SAP Cloud Appliance Library (CAL) , you can use SAP's latest systems in the cloud with little effort. Some of the systems are free…