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Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

By : Mark Walker
Book Image

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

Connecting to the SAP HANA server


Now that we've taken a look at the different panels available in the Studio, we can connect to our SAP HANA server.

Note

You'll need the connection information for your server at this point. This includes:

  • The address of the server

  • The SAP HANA instance number

  • Whether you connect using a username and password, or using Single sign-on (SSO) and the SSO method if appropriate

If you don't know this information, ask your system administrator.

Additionally, for the examples in the book to work correctly, you will need the authorization to create schemas and tables, as well as modeling objects. When your system administrator asks the authorizations you need, you can say that they are:

  • PUBLIC

  • CONTENT_ADMIN

  • MODELING

Authorizations will be covered fully in Chapter 7, Hey! That's My Data! – Authorizations in SAP HANA.

In order to create a connection to your SAP HANA server, you can proceed in one of the following two ways:

  • Follow the Cheat Sheet panel's Adding a New Systems and...