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Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

You're reading from   Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform Written by a SAP HANA expert, this book takes you from installation to running your own processes in no time. By the end of the course you'll have awesome data retrieval and analytical powers to call on.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2013
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ISBN-13 9781849689403
Length 328 pages
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. So, What Is This SAP HANA Thing Anyways? FREE CHAPTER 2. SAP HANA Studio – Installation and First Look 3. Your First SAP HANA Development – An Attribute View 4. Painting with Numbers – An Analytic View 5. Let's Get Graphical – Graphical Calculation Views 6. You Talking to Me? – Scripted Calculation Views 7. Hey! That's My Data! – Authorizations in SAP HANA 8. On Another Level – Hierarchies in SAP HANA 9. Deploying Your Reporting Application to Reporting Software 10. Data Provisioning Using Data Services 11. Application Development Using the XS Engine So Long and Thanks – Where To Go from Here 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...

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