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Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

By : Mark Walker
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Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

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By: Mark Walker
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform
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Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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So, What Is This SAP HANA Thing Anyways?
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So, What Is This SAP HANA Thing Anyways?
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Time for action – statistics about internal commercial flights in the USA from 1998 to 2011
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Understanding the performance of SAP HANA
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Summary
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SAP HANA Studio – Installation and First Look
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SAP HANA Studio – Installation and First Look
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Getting access to SAP HANA
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Running the installation
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Welcome to the SAP HANA Studio
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Connecting to the SAP HANA server
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Importing sample data
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Previewing the sample data
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Summary
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Your First SAP HANA Development – An Attribute View
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Your First SAP HANA Development – An Attribute View
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Creating a delivery unit
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Creating a package
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Creating an attribute view
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Advanced features of attribute views
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Summary
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Quick reference
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Painting with Numbers – An Analytic View
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Painting with Numbers – An Analytic View
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Creating an analytic view
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Adding an attribute view to an analytic view
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Advanced features of analytic views
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Summary
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Let's Get Graphical – Graphical Calculation Views
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Let's Get Graphical – Graphical Calculation Views
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What is a graphical calculation view?
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Creating a graphical calculation view
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Summary
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You Talking to Me? – Scripted Calculation Views
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You Talking to Me? – Scripted Calculation Views
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Creating a scripted calculation view
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Summary
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Hey! That's My Data! – Authorizations in SAP HANA
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Hey! That's My Data! – Authorizations in SAP HANA
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Roles
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Analytic privileges
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System privileges
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Package privileges
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Users
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Testing our user and role
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Summary
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On Another Level – Hierarchies in SAP HANA
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On Another Level – Hierarchies in SAP HANA
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Hierarchy types in SAP HANA
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Creating a hierarchy in SAP HANA
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Viewing data according to a hierarchy
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Summary
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Deploying Your Reporting Application to Reporting Software
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Deploying Your Reporting Application to Reporting Software
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Getting software to talk to SAP HANA
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SAP Lumira
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Microsoft Excel®
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Tableau software
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Summary
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Quick tool comparison
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Data Provisioning Using Data Services
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Data Provisioning Using Data Services
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About the sample data
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Understanding the BODS main screen
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Creating a Data Services project
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Summary
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Application Development Using the XS Engine
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Application Development Using the XS Engine
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Checking the XS Engine
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Understanding XS Engine applications
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Creating an application using XS Engine
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Hello, World!
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XS Engine database access
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Developing user interfaces using SAPUI5
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So Long and Thanks – Where To Go from Here
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So Long and Thanks – Where To Go from Here
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What we've covered
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Now it's your turn
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Index
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Index

Users

Users are probably the most important part of the authorization concept. They are where all our problems begin, and their attempts to do and see things they shouldn't are the main reason we have to spend valuable time defining authorizations in the first place.

In technical terms, a user is just another database object. They are created, modified, and deleted in the same way a modeling view is. They have properties (their name and password, for example), and it is by modifying these properties that we influence the actions that the person who connects using the user can perform.

Up until now we have been using the SYSTEM user (or the user that your database administrator assigned to you). This user is defined by SAP, and has basically the authorizations to do anything with the database.

Tip

Use of this user is discouraged by SAP, and the author really would like to insist that you don't use it for your developments. Accidents happen, and one of the great things about authorizations is...

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