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Bangalore, October 5 - 7
Barcelona, Nov 8 - 10
Srinivas Rapthadu
Vaishnavi Dharmaraja
Yves Augustin
Werner Steyn
Rajesh Panditi
Christoph Morgen
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Agenda
Overview Whats New in SAP HANA Modeling SPS12
SAP HANA Studio Calculation View Modeling Enhancements
New capabilities and enhancements
Migration enhancements
New SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA Graphical Development Tools
Graphical CDS Editor
Calculation View Development
Lineage and Impact Analysis
Exercises
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SAP HANA SPS12 Whats

New in SAP HANA Modeling
SAP HANA View Modeling Enhancements Overview
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SAP HANA SPS12 Whats New in SAP HANA Modeling

SAP HANA View Modeling Enhancements Overview
SAP HANA Studio-based Modeling
SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA-based Modeling
Calculation View Editor Enhancements
Calculation View Editor
Hierarchies unassigned member handling support

Data Sources SQL (CDS) views from tenant databases
JOIN modeling enhancements temporal join,
Spatial expression in filters
Support for
major and most
capabilities
Graphical Core Data Services

(CDS) editor
SAP PowerDesigner
Enterprise Architecture / HANA Development
PowerDesigner support for CDS artifacts for enterprise
architecture top down modeling
Cross object Impact Analysis and Data Lineage
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SAP HANA Model Editor Enhancements Overview
Calculation View Editor Enhancements
Data Source Enhancements
Support SQL views from tenant database
Catalog table function support
Temporal Join support
Currency conversion on inner aggregation nodes
Hierarchies enhancement
Unassigned / Null member handling support
Composite Keys for Parent-Child Hierarchies
Refactoring enhancements
Aggregation node measure conversion support
Spatial Expressions
Support functions and predicates in filter expressions
Calculated Columns of type geometry / spatial expression
support
Semantic Node reorganizing column order
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SAP HANA SPS12 - Modeling Enhancements

Calculation View Enhancements Data Source Enhancements
Data Source Enhancements
Search for data sources
in remote tenant db
Multitenant database container remote data source to Calculation Views
Remote tables (SPS10) and remote Calculation Views (SPS11) have been supported
Enhanced support for remote SQL-views (e.g. CDS generated) as data sources
Warning is issued if remote Calculation View is of type scripted or embeds a SQLScript Table Function, as
both not yet supported.
Catalog table functions now supported as data sources
Icon indicating catalog object-type
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Calculation View Enhancements Join Enhancements
Join Enhancements in Calculation Views
Temporal Join-conditions are supported
In Calculation View join-nodes (standard join and starJoins) based on Inner-Joins
Support for additional temporal join conditions
with VALID_FROM and VALID_TO properties
Fact
Temporal Attributes
Contact_ID
Contact_ID
DATE
DATE_TO
Amount
DATE_FROM
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Calculation View Enhancements Union Enhancements
Union-Node Enhancements in Calculation Views
Union Pruning Enhancement
Technical Union-Source Name,
maintained by applications
like Data Lifecycle Manager
is displayed in properties
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Calculation View Enhancements Currency Conversion Enhancement
Currency Conversion Enhancements
Support for conversion-measures
on lower aggregation-nodes
You wanted to maintain currency and unit conversion
at an intermediate level of your calculation view,
thus e.g. maintain different flow operations within the
view for differently converted measures
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Calculation View Enhancements Redesigning a Scenario
Scenario Redesign Replacing Nodes or Data Sources
When redesigning an existing view, you may require
Insert an aggregation-node / switch a projection-node to an aggregation-node
By default in aggregated / switched to aggregation-node measures are not automatically changed to
aggregated column
o Workaround has been a delete / re-add as aggregated column + propagate again, thus however, semantic information of
the measure throughout the flow might be get lost
Now, convert to aggregated column is supported
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Calculation View Enhancements Semantic Node
Semantic Node Enhancement
Managing / reorganize column order
Instead of only using
to maintain the order of column
Now Drag-and drop of multiple selected columns
is supported
Order is kept of course for all consuming
activities incl. data preview
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Calculation View Enhancements Full-Text Search Metadata
Full-Text Search Metadata
Implicit BIMC text search metadata
Calculation Views based on columns which are inherently
text-/fuzzy searchable or where a full-text index has been defined
Populate BIMC_DIMENSION_VIEW-metadata view
to notify BI clients or applications, that a view column is mapped to a table column, which is backed by a text
index / is fuzzy searchable
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Calculation View Enhancements Spatial Expressions
Spatial Expression Support
Calculated Column using spatial expressions
Allow calculated columns of type geometry
Allow all spatial functions in the expressions
(not just the predicates)
Filter using spatial expressions

Spatial filter expressions
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Calculation View Enhancements Hierarchies
Hierarchy Enhancements
NotAssigned- and NULL value handling in hierarchies
NULL values as dimension-key in fact data (if present) would
typically be ignored in calculations
NotAssigned members in a hierarchy are dimension-keys in

fact data, which are not present in the hierarchy data
For both cases, Hana hierarchies can handle these using a
pseudo member that adds a node in the hierarchy to
encompass values in fact tables to which the hierarchy is
related that have no corresponding master data values in the
corresponding hierarchies.
For level- and parent-child hierarchies
Only supported for facts joined with left outer joins to
dimensions
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Parent-Child hierarchy example
Multidimensional reporting client,
here MDX-based client
Employees FOO and the NULL

employee have booked values for
SALES but do not exist in the
hierarchy source data.
N.a. maybe a root member itself

or a children of the all member;
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Level hierarchy example
Multidimensional reporting client,
here MDX-based client
Products FOO and the NULL

employee have booked values for
SALES but do not exist in the
hierarchy source data.
Drill down across all levels to detail;
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Hierarchy Enhancements
Full composite key support for Parent-Child Hierarchies
Composite keys are required in cases where there is no single
field in a hierarchy that provides uniqueness for master data
values of a hierarchy.
o The most common case is in organization structures where a
CostCentre alone is not unique only the combination of the
CostCenter and its ControllingCostCenter together provide a unique
value that can be used to define and build a hierarchy.
Joins between facts and dimension must include all

composite hierarchy key columns
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Converting Calculation Views

Attribute-, Analytic- and Scripted Calculation View conversion to graphical Calculation View
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Converting all SAP HANA Views to Calculation Views
Going forward with Graphical Calculation Views
Graphically modeled Calculation Views target to unify all SAP HANA View capabilities,
with respect to functionality as well as performance
Attribute Views
Analytic Views
Script-based CVs
CVs
Modeled Analytic
Privileges
Graphical Calculation Views

Table Functions
SQL-based Analytic Privileges
Convert using
the HANA Studio Migration Tool
HDI-based design-time artefacts

Calculation Views
Table Functions
SQL-based Analytic Privileges
Migration using a separate DU

Migrations tool, target to help migrations
of XSC to XSA applications
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Going forward with Graphical Calculation Views
Converting your SAP HANA Views
Dimension-Type graphical Calculation Views replacing Attribute-Views
Cube-/StarJoin-Type graphical Calculation Views replacing Analytic-Views
Table Functions as Data Sources in graphical Calculation Views
replacing Scripted-Calculation Views
SQL-based Analytic Privileges replacing classic modeled Analytic Privileges
With SPS11 a migration utility is initially provided

to support the conversion process
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Conversion enhancements with SPS12
Converting your SAP HANA Views
N:m cardinality in joins can be migrated to Calculation View

Temp joins can be migrated
Views generated by BW containing specific data source references
Analytic view migration shows dependent object as option (to simulate impact on referenced objects)
Keep assigned privileges to SQL roles and users during migration
o Keep assigned privileges to SQL roles and users (view & privilege migration)
o Adjust privileges on star join calc views and add dimension calc views as secured model
Activation can be initiated by migration-utility as the last (optional) step
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Migrate individual Views
Selective migration of selected views, not just packages
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Privilege assignment as part of the migration activity
MIGRATION Keep assigned privileges to SQL roles and users
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SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA

Graphical Development Tools
Introduction and Overview to the new Graphical Development Tools
within the SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA
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SAP HANA Graphical Development Tools Innovation Path

SAP HANA Studio Modeler Eclipse-perspective
Primarily focused on HANA View modeling artifacts
SAP HANA Studio Development Eclipse-perspective
Support for all application and database design-time
artifacts and providing additional repository functionality
E.g. Script-based CDS development, flowgraphs, .
SAP HANA Web-based Development Workbench
Database & Application Development
Initial releases of graphical development tools
SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA

New Development tooling platform for
SAP HANA, initially delivered in SPS11*
major release with SAP HANA SPS12
All development tools
(re-) implemented as
XS Advanced applications
leveraging new UI frameworks of the
SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA and
commonly building on the new
HANA deployment infrastructure.
Web-based graphical editors
Calculation Views
CDS entities
Data flows
Lineage and impact analysis
*SAP Note: 2233866 - SAP HANA XS Advanced Model SPS11
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SAP HANA XS Advanced View Modeling Enhancements Overview
SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA-based Modeling
Calculation View Editor
Graphical Core Data Services (CDS) editor
Support for
major and most
capabilities
Cross object Impact Analysis and Data Lineage
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SAP HANA XS Advanced Calculation View Editor Getting Started
Setting up your development environment
in the SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA
Creating a MTA (Multi-Target Application)

Project
Creating a HDB module
An isolated HANA Deployment Infrastructure

Container (~ isolated schema as your HANA
development workspace)
Specifying the namespace used for

all development artefacts of this project
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Building your HDB Module
Physically creates the HDB module (the database

schema and all configurations)
Activates all content (under \src) and creates
all runtime artefacts
webIDE console log
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Creating a Calculation View
Graphical development of HANA Calculation Views

Graphical Calculation Views as the overall and unified
view modeling object*
Building on new usability approaches: mapping based
data and column-flow fewer dialogs, instead more real
estate and focused view in the current activity context
when editing Calculation View details
Analytic- and Attribute-View modeling have been
included into StarJoin / Dimension Calculation Views
SQLScript table functions can be used to embed
script-based calculation
*With SAP HANA SPS12, the Calculation View Editor is not yet functional
eqivalent to the SAP HANA Studio based modeling editors.
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Project setup and configuration files

Menu > View > show hidden files
shows hidden folders and files
.hdiconfig > lists HDI registered development

artefacts deployed at build time
.hdinamespace > configures the package
namespace for your development objects*.
All development objects will be preceeded with the
namespace (replacing old repository content
structure), e.g.
mta.yaml configuration file specifies service
modules, their configuration and dependencies to
other services
*As we no longer use the HANA Repository to hold design-time objects, this file
provides the same service as the folder structure in the repository used to.
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SAP HANA XS Advanced Calculation View Editor Data Sources
Calculation View Data Sources
Data Sources within your HDI environment

Design-Time objects local to your development
container
Tables, Table Functions, SQL Views, Calculation
Views are supported inputs
This incl. Smart Data Access virtual table definition
(hdbvirtualtable)
Synonym definitions are required to model using data
sources outside of your current development
container
MDC remote data sources are not yet supported
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SAP HANA
Introduction and Overview to the new Graphical CDS Editor
within the SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA
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SAP HANA SPS12 New Features and Enhancements

SAP HANA XS Advanced Graphical CDS Editor Overview
Graphical development of CDS objects

Supported capabilities incl.
Contexts
Entities, incl. HANA native types
Structured Types
Indexes, incl. Search/Full Text Indexes
Table Groupings, Partitioning
Associations
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SAP HANA XS Advanced Graphical CDS Editor
CDS development editor choices
Graphical and Script-based CDS editors

Graphical editor
opens any hdbcds-file
Persist any nongraphically
supported
capability
Script-based editor
opens any
graphically
developed
hdbcds-file
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Example
Context
Inner Entities and Types
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Example
External entities / references

Associations (here unmanaged)
Grey objects are, readonly entiies, higherlevel or external

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DMM360 - Exercises
Overview
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CYCLIST
1:1 ATM Alerts
SNOWBOARDER
Detect unusual transactions
Debugger
Visualize Plan
Calculated Columns
2:1 Column Data Masking
Hide columns based on

user-rights
Stored procedure
Input Parameters
SQL Expressions
Count number transactions
Restricted Columns vs
using Unions
Conditional Exception
Aggregation
2:2 Rolling Sales/Slowly Changing Dimensions
2:3 Dynamic Time based Analysis

List most valuable players
Rank node
Value Help Prompts
Visualize Plan
Current Quarter sales vs

Previous Year Quarter Sales
SQL Table functions
Time series data
Current year sales vs historical

sales
Smart Data Access
Pruning Configuration Table
Implicit/Explicit Input pruning
Derived Input Parameters

20 Minutes / 49 Steps
3:2 State of the Union Speeches

Analyze linguistic differences
Text Analysis
Counters
Union
Calculate rolling sales by month and product
Dynamic Join, Temporal Join
Transparent / Keep flag
Helper materialized table
Debugger
1:3 Soccer Player Rankings
3:1 Hot vs Cold Data
1:2 ATM Activity
ASTRONAUT
3:3 UFO Sightings
Analyze and predict UFO sightings
GEO Spatial
Predictive Analytics
SQL Table functions
SQL Procedures
1:4 CO-PA Analysis
Analyze Planned Vs Actual Sales
Unions, Star-Join, Text Join
Multi-Language Support
2:4 Restricted Sales Report
1:5 Basket Analyses
Analyze frequently ordered

product combinations
Exception aggregation
Multi-level aggregation
Currency conversion
Restrict users to their assigned

regional sales areas
SQL Analytical Privileges
Restricting shared dimensions
Debug authorization errors
Role assignment
2:5 Dilbert HR Org Chart
Calculates managers total sales

and their employee sales
SQL Analytical Privileges
SQL Hierarchies
Hierarchy Prompts, Roles
Not Assigned members

3:4 FIFO Inventory Management

Calculate profitability using
First-In-First-Out
Advanced SQL
Table functions
Time series
3:5 Non-cumulative Daily stock balance

Calculates the daily stock balance per
product based on inflow and outflow
Advanced SQL knowledge
Cross-joins, dynamic exploding &

imploding
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Further information
Related SAP TechEd sessions:
DMM269 - End-to-End Model Performance Analysis in Native SAP HANA Platform
DMM203 - New Approaches for Data Modeling with SAP HANA
DMM260 - Introduction to Data Modeling in SAP HANA
DMM162 - SAP HANA Data Warehousing: Build and Run a SQL Data Warehouse on SAP HANA
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SAP HANA SPS12 Whats

SAP HANA SPS12 Whats New in SAP HANA Modeling

SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA-based Modeling

Calculation View Editor Enhancements

Calculation View Editor

Hierarchies unassigned member handling support

Graphical Core Data Services

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Cross object Impact Analysis and Data Lineage

SAP HANA SPS12 Whats New in SAP HANA Modeling

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SAP HANA SPS12 - Modeling Enhancements

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SAP HANA SPS12 - Modeling Enhancements

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SAP HANA SPS12 - Modeling Enhancements

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SAP HANA SPS12 - Modeling Enhancements

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SAP HANA SPS12 - Modeling Enhancements

Now, convert to aggregated column is supported

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SAP HANA SPS12 - Modeling Enhancements

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Filter using spatial expressions

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NotAssigned members in a hierarchy are dimension-keys in

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SAP HANA SPS12 - Modeling Enhancements

Employees FOO and the NULL

N.a. maybe a root member itself

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SAP HANA SPS12 - Modeling Enhancements

Products FOO and the NULL

Drill down across all levels to detail;

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SAP HANA SPS12 - Modeling Enhancements

Joins between facts and dimension must include all

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Converting Calculation Views

SAP HANA SPS11 - Modeling Enhancements

Graphical Calculation Views

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HDI-based design-time artefacts

Migration using a separate DU

SAP HANA SPS11 - Modeling Enhancements

With SPS11 a migration utility is initially provided

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