I think this is quite interesting for those of you that are working or plan to work with Azure in the future. One of the best automation solutions nowadays is Ansible. It allows us to create a playbook in order to automatize certain actions. If you combine Ansible with Terraform, mix it with SAP HANA […]
Category: SAP HANA

SAP HANA Best Practices: Archiving and Consistency Check
I decided to start a series of post related to SAP HANA Best Practices. The idea popped up in my mind a few weeks ago when I was checking a SAP HANA databases from several of my customers. It seems that there are some basic best practices that nobody follows… Maybe because they are not […]

SAP HANA 2.0: Upgrade Guide
During the last two months I had the opportunity of performing several upgrades to SAP HANA 2.0. The process itself is quite easy but there are some important topics to review before and after the upgrade. I write this post for those of you who plan to upgrade your HANA databases to the latest available. […]

SAP HANA Vora 101: Architecture, Requirements and Cluster Tools
I worked lately with SAP HANA Vora and Cloudera and I am really impressed with both applications. Right now it is easier to deploy a configure Apache Hadoop using Cloudera Manager and Cloudera CDH, you don’t have to install and configure each part of Apache Hadoop individually. SAP takes advantage of Apache Hadoop and release […]

SAP LT101: How to start and troubleshooting
SAP Landscape Transformation (SLT) is becoming a popular choice to transfer and transform data between SAP and non-SAP sources. The idea behind is to have an utility that allows us to transfer data in real time between different sources with the possibility of transform it during the process. For example, we can transfer data from […]

Important SAP HANA HotNews about database corruption
SAP released a HotNews related with database corruption within HANA databases. SAP HotNews are SAP Note with Very High/Critical priority that should be checked in advance and as soon as possible. The HotNew I’m talking about is SAP Note 2370160 – Possible Rowstore Table Corruption When Continuous Page Flush is Enabled that describes a possible […]

SAP HANA 2.0: What’s new in the administration
The guys from SAP HANA Academy wrote a nice post about the new features in the database administration for SAP HANA 2.0. In the following weeks they will release new post about what is new in SAP HANA 2.0. If you want to be updated check the following link: What’s New with SAP HANA 2.0 […]

SAP HANA evolves into… HANA 2.0!
Long time without writing anything in the blog and a lot of things have changed during this time. I wanted to talked about BW/4HANA but it seems SAP have a bigger and more important surprise: SAP HANA 2! It is time to move, it is time for HANA 2 During the last SAP Teched celebrated […]
My HANA database is eating all memory! – Part2
Few weeks ago I wrote a post about a HANA Database using all memory on the server. If you remember I fixed this issue upgrading the HANA version of the database. I was quite surprised when I received an alert saying that 90% of the physical memory was used on the server. So I logged […]
What is S/4 HANA? Explanation for dummies
Lots of questions raised about S/4 HANA since SAP released it on February 2015. People still trying to figure out what it is and how it works: Is it a database? Is it an SAP system? Is it a platform? One of my coworkers (the great Fabio Cerioni) wrote an email answering all these questions […]