1. SAP HANA basics and features
2. SAP HANA architecture and the terminology involved
3. Working on HANA Studio Modeler and gaining expertise in modeling
4. SAP HANA interface, client, and connectivity
5. Auto documentation process and SAP BO Analysis
6. SAP HANA administration activities—managing users, storage, and security
7. System replication, data provisioning, and ABAP data flow
8. Configuring, reporting, monitoring, and creating dashboards in SAP HANA
9. Working on real-time and complex HANA projects
10. Writing SAP HANA queries and performance tuning.

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1)      Approaching SAP HANA

Introduction to in-memory computing, fundamentals of SAP HANA, what SAP HANA can do, what SAP HANA can’t do, high-performance functionalities in SAP HANA, columnar store database, massive parallel processing, data compression. SAP HANA for non-SAP use cases, SAP HANA for non-SAP analytics, SAP HANA for non-SAP applications. SAP HANA database architecture, and SAP HANA landscapes and scenarios.

2)      Introduction to HANA Studio

Adding SAP HANA System, perspectives, modeling, administration, development plan viz. folders, catalog, provisioning, and content, security, users and roles, SAP HANA Database SQL script, basics of HANA Database SQL, statement types, data types, expressions, operators, basic query execution, sub-queries, joins, loops, schema, tables, views, stored procedures, functions, index, synonyms, triggers, sequences, SDA (Smart Data Access).

3)      SAP HANA Modeling

Introduction to SAP HANA modeling, model types, attribute views, joins, filter operations usage, restricted and calculated columns creation, and using hierarchies, analytical views, star schema design, multidimensional modeling, using variables and input parameters, and advantages and limitations.

4)      Calculation Views (GUI)

Dimension calculation view, star join calculation and OLTP calculation, using projection, join, aggregation, union, rank, etc., introduction to calculation views (scripted), CE functions, and content procedure creation.

5)      Analytic Privileges

Classical analytic privilege, SQL analytic privilege, and dynamic analytic privilege, turning business rules into decision tables, and table functions.

6)      Modeling

Union pruning, schema mapping, refactoring information models, propagating to schematics, Find Where-used, Show Lineage, generating time data, and more. Using Time Travel and Currency Conversion, deprecated information models migration; web-based modeling, work bench, advanced HANA SQL script, temporary tables, exception handling, triggers, etc.

7)      Full-text Search

Overview, data types, full-text indexes, and full-text search usage, application life cycle management, transport using the Developer mode and the Delivery Unit mode, and changing management, analyzing query performance, explaining plan, performance trace, and visualize plan.

8)      Data Provisioning

Data provisioning overview, using SLT for data provisioning, using BODS for data acquisition, and Flat File Upload for data provisioning. Using Direct Extractor Connection for data provisioning, security, and authorization, introduction to Lumira, data preparation in Lumira, and visualizing Compose data.

9)      ABAP Programming for SAP HANA

How SAP HANA affects the ABAP development process, introducing ABAP development tools (ABAP in Eclipse), how to take ABAP to HANA, using SAP HANA as a secondary database, various issues in performance and functional aspects encountered in SAP HANA migration, understanding the ABAP Test Cockpit, Code Inspector, Profiler, Trace, and SQL Trace, improving the performance with SQL performance tuning and monitoring, and the guidelines and rules to follow while deploying ABAP for SAP HANA.

10)   Accessing Data Stored in SAP HANA

‘What is New Open SQL?,’ defining advanced views by deploying Core Data Services in ABAP, creating CDS associations, how to implement authorization checks using CDS with ABAP, SAP HANA Objects in ABAP, and how to consume SAP HANA views and SAP HANA database procedures using ADBC (ABAP Database Connectivity) and native SQL in ABAP.

11)   SAP HANA Cloud: Modeling

Core modeling, schema, space in memory, table, data storage, and loading sample.

12)   SAP HANA Cloud: Analytical View

Advance modeling, attribute view, analytical view, and calculation view.

13)   SAP HANA Cloud Extraction of Data

SLT, (SAP Landscape Transformation), Real-time Replication data process, BODS (Business Object Data Services), ETL (Extraction Transformation Loading), DXC (Direct Extractor Connector), SAP BW or DW, SDA (Smart Data Access), remotely virtual table, SDI, and ETL Virtua in to PYS.

14)   Advanced Topics

SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering, Delta Merge, SDI (Smart Data Integration), SAP HANA application platform, SAP HANA Cloud, L procedures and R procedures, partitioning of tables, and introduction to AFL, PAL, and BFL.