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Analytic Privilege behavior within Calculation View/Analytic View - VizPlan...
In some prototyping with Calculation Views in HANA, I came across something I thought was of interest so I decided to share. This involves the various behaviors and pushdowns that occur with regard to...
View ArticleUsing loops in stored procedures for HANA ETL processes
Purpose: Demonstrate how to use a looping technique to execute stored procedures in smaller chunks. This assumes no external ETL tools are available and stored procedures must be used. Motivation:...
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How to avoid NULL (?) values when using dimension attributes with fact table...
Purpose: Describe a method to address a common DW/BI problem of not having a matching row in a dimension for a given fact where the fact column is blank ('' ) whitespace. In general, we want to avoid...
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How To...Load and Convert SAP Long Text into HANA using SLT
SummaryI know this is one of the many favorite topics for an SAP BI/BW developer, and can be the source of some confusion on how to accomplish. I have been a part of many hotly debated sessions where...
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How To...Calculate YTD-MTD-anyTD using Date Dimensions
RequirementIt is a very common requirement to view various “slices” of data based on different time criteria on the same row in a report or analysis. “Show me current year to date vs. prior year to...
View ArticleHow to...perform mass user creation / role assignment
A recent request came up at a customer who was migrating to a larger independent HANA sidecar scenario and wanted to move large groups of users from one HANA instance to another. Since there is no mass...
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How to...implement HANA dynamic material UOM conversions
First off, I have to recognize that this conversation was started (as always) in some blog comments with Tim Korba, who provided an approach that I tweaked and used in a current project. That's the...
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