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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

Previewing the sample data


Now that the data for the examples in the book is in our SAP HANA system, we can take a few minutes to examine it and get familiar with it.

Here is a visual representation of the sample data:

The Studio offers a very useful Data Preview tool, which can be used to see the contents of tables (and indeed any modeling view we create later). To access this function, just right-click on the table (or view) name, and select Data Preview. The following is a screenshot showing the contents of the CUSTOMER table we just imported, so that you can compare it with the data in your SAP HANA system:

The Data Preview function does what its name suggests, it shows you the raw data in the underlying table. There are other possibilities offered by this tool, which we will see in detail later.

You might like to take a few minutes to have a look at the data in each of the tables we imported, and compare what you see to the schema of the links between the tables on the previous page. When...

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