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Real Time Analytics with SAP Hana

By : Vinay Singh
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Real Time Analytics with SAP Hana

By: Vinay Singh

Overview of this book

SAP HANA is an in-memory database created by SAP. SAP HANA breaks traditional database barriers to simplify IT landscapes, eliminating data preparation, pre-aggregation, and tuning. SAP HANA and in-memory computing allow you to instantly access huge volumes of structured and unstructured data, including text data, from different sources. Starting with data modeling, this fast-paced guide shows you how to add a system to SAP HANA Studio, create a schema, packages, and delivery unit. Moving on, you’ll get an understanding of real-time replication via SLT and learn how to use SAP HANA Studio to perform this. We’ll also have a quick look at SAP Business Object DATA service and SAP Direct Extractor for Data Load. After that, you will learn to create HANA artifacts—Analytical Privileges and Calculation View. At the end of the book, we will explore the SMART DATA access option and AFL library, and finally deliver pre-packaged functionality that can be used to build information models faster and easier.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Real Time Analytics with SAP HANA
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Creating SAP HANA Artifacts – Analytical Privileges and Calculation Views

In the previous chapter, we learned how to create information models—attribute view and analytical view. We also walked through various other components involved during the creation of these artifacts. We will continue with the creation of other SAP HANA information models in this chapter namely—calculation view and analytical view. We will also explore how to create and use filters and input variables.

After completing this chapter, you should be able to:

  • Create restricted measures and restricted columns

  • Create filters, variables and input parameters (This is covered in this chapter in more detail)

  • Create calculation view—graphical

  • Create and use analytical privileges

In Chapter 4, Creating SAP HANA Artifacts Attribute Views and Analytical Views, under other elements, we learned how to create calculated measures and calculated columns. Let's learn some more basic elements before we move on to create calculation...