Database Unavailable – HDB Connectivity issue Part 1

Introduction:

Although the database instance was up and all HANA services were active, a database unavailability alert appeared in the “Focussed Run” or in the CCMS alert.

In this article, identify the root cause of the HDB connectivity issue and also check whether the KEY entry corresponding to the database user was present in the hdbuserstore.

Also, identify which database user was required to add the KEY entry in hdbuserstore.

Robotic Test Automation Brings Ends To Scripting

Robotic Test Automation Brings Ends To Scripting

Scripts always brings an expression that can foray fear into the hearts of the most fearless team of developers, QA experts and project managers as they try to deliver changes into an SAP system on time and under budget.

Well, possibly not so much ‘fear’ as a discouraging sense of acknowledgement.

Emergency Access Management (EAM) for HANA Target Systems

Purpose of the Document

In the latest version of GRC 12.0,  SAP has extended the emergency access management (EAM) functionality to HANA database. This blog is to provide the details on how this new functionality can be configured and utilized to manage the firefighting access to HANA target systems.

Unfair speed test – ABAP CDS on ASE vs HANA CDS on HANA

The title of the blog post says it all. This will be an unfair speed test.

If you’ve read the previous two posts of this series, you’ll note that I have successfully connected the ABAP 751 SP02 Developer Edition to a HANA Express 2.0 server as a secondary DB and used a simple ABAP program that helped replicate data over from ASE to HANA DB.

To perform this test, I created two very similar CDS, one on ABAP that will be selecting from the ABAP 751 server running on ASE and another directly on HANA hosted on my HANA Express Edition server.