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Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

By : Mark Walker
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Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

By: Mark Walker

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Analytic privileges


An analytic privilege is an artifact unique to SAP HANA, it is not part of the standard SQL authorization concept.

Analytic privileges allow us to restrict access to certain values of a given attribute, analytic, or calculation view. This means that we can create one view, which by default shows all available data, and then restrict what is actually visible to different users. We could restrict visible data by company code, by country, or by region. For example, our users in Europe would be allowed to see and work with data from our customers in Europe, but not those in the USA.

An analytic privilege is created through the Quick Launch panel of Modeler, so please open that view now (or switch to the Quick Launch tab if it's already open).

Tip

You don't need to close the role definition tab that's already open, we can leave it for now, create our analytic privilege, and then come back to the role definition later.

From the Quick Launch panel, select Analytic Privilege, and...