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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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Mark Walker Mark Walker
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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

What is a graphical calculation view?


A graphical calculation view, as its name suggests, is a graphical editor with building blocks to create a view. We've often seen the concept of building blocks in this book, whereby we create a small initial development which can then be included in a larger one. Graphical calculation views push this concept to its logical conclusion, giving a visual editor to create, organize, and link different blocks together.

This graphical editor is only for our benefit as developers. When we activate our development, it is transformed, as are all objects we create in the SAP HANA Studio, into SQL statements appropriate to SAP HANA. We will see in the next chapter (Chapter 6, You Talking to Me? – Scripted calculation views) that we can achieve the same results by writing the SQL ourselves if we need to do more complex calculations in our views.

In the next few sections we'll create a graphical calculation view, seeing the different types of actions we can perform...

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