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Monday, 21 December 2015

Getting the Counters right with stacked Calculation Views

Data Modeling in SAP HANA provides great amount of flexibility to the end user. One of the key capabilities in Modeling sector of SAP HANA is computation of user required calculations. One of the variations in calculation which end user can perform in Calculation Views/Analytic Views is 'Counter'.

Let us now understand the operations under the hood when stack of Calculation Views are created in a project.

Consider a simple 'Product Details' table which comprise of the product information along with its sales information as shown below:


Product Store Customer Quantity Revenue Unit
Headset METRO ALDI 2 120 PACKG
ipad METRO ALDI 10 6000 PACKG
ipad METRO IBM 10 6000 PACKG
Budweiser EDEKA IBM 360 720 BOTTL
Coke EDEKA ALDI 260 390 BOTTL
Coke EDEKA IBM 250 375 BOTTL
Coke EBAY IBM 200 300 BOTTL
Headset EBAY IBM 10 600 PACKG
ipad EBAY ALDI 10 600 PACKG