Chapter 3. Different Ways of SAP HANA Data Load

In the previous chapter, you got an understanding of the approach that we should take for data modeling and learned about various artifacts in SAP HANA. In this chapter, we detail the key data load methods and the technical components that enable data loading in SAP HANA. In this book, we will not be talking about data loading in a SAP BW or any other system running on HANA database. Rather, we will keep the discussion focused on SAP HANA as standalone system.

After completing this chapter, you should be able to:

• Load data from Flat file in SAP HANA
• Understand the concept of real-time replication via SAP LT
• Work with SAP HANA Studio for data provisioning
• Load data with Direct Extractor
• Load data with SAP Business Object Data Services Workbench
• Understand how SAP Replication Server and Smart Data Access works

Before we start to create information models, we need to import all the required table definitions and load the tables with data in...