SAP HANA XSA Controller API Interaction

Since the introduction of SAP HANA extended application services, advanced model (XSA), SAP has supported many new approaches to accessing the platform APIs.  XSA is based upon Cloud Foundry which provides its core functionality via a command line client and a REST enabled web API.  XSA has this same functionality, but most of the focus on platform admin and interaction tends to focus on the CLI interface or the browser-based administrative UI which SAP deliveries. However behind that web UI are essentially calls to the controller APIs. These same APIs can be called from and used in your own applications.  In this blog I’d like to share some experiences trying to use these APIs.  There are some common challenges anyone using them will face and perhaps this blog can be helpful in that regard.

SAP HANA 2.0 SPS02: New client interface features

This is the first of a set of posts about new features in the SAP HANA client interfaces. Following posts discuss the new python and Go drivers, but all of these assume you have the SAP HANA Client package installed on your computer, so this post is a reminder of how to do that.

SQL Clients and SAP HANA 2.0

So recently I’ve been playing around a lot with our “Server Only” version of the SAP HANA, express edition (HXE). Now with that server only version I am mainly focused on just using more of the Database features than anything else. Trying SQL and working with the PAL libraries.

With our activities and ability to quickly load HXE into the Google Cloud Platform I also thought how else could I speed of some of my time. I mean I am only working with SQL on some of these things so could I use the JDBC driver and find a tool that would do nicely for it?

I’ve now tried a good half a dozen or so and decided that the current one I will play with the next few weeks would be DBeaver.