SAP HANA Administration

Find out what HANA means for DBAs!

written by Richard Bremer, Lars Breddemann

722 pages, 2014, Print edition hardcover
ISBN 978-1-59229-952-2 722 pages, 2014
E-book formats: EPUB, MOBI, PDF, online
ISBN 978-1-59229-953-9 722 pages, 2014, Print edition hardcover
E-book formats: EPUB, MOBI, PDF, online
ISBN 978-1-59229-954-6

Who says that a leopard can’t change its spots? With the advent of SAP HANA, database administration is evolving—and you can evolve along with it. Learn how traditional administration concepts are applied in SAP HANA, and find out about the new concepts relevant to an in-memory database. Novice or expert, this book will help you sharpen your skills.

Go under the hood of SAP HANA: architecture, administration tools, objects, and more
Manage high availability, backup, and recovery
Get hands-on advice about user management, roles, and privileges

About the Book About the E-book 722 pages, hardcover, 1.75 in. Reference book format 6.9 x 9 in. Printed black and white on 60# offset paper from sustainable sources. Casebound for durability. Reader-friendly serif font (Linotype Syntax 9.5 Pt.). One-column layout. E-book in full color. PDF (42 MB), EPUB (44 MB), and MOBI file (70 MB) for download, DRM-free with personalized digital watermark. Copy & paste, bookmarks, and print-out permitted. Table of contents, in-text references, and index fully linked. Including online book edition in dedicated reader application.

In this book, you'll learn about:

The SAP HANA Difference

Learn about how SAP HANA is different from a traditional database, and what this means for you.
Key Concepts

You know what tables, objects, sessions, and transactions are—now learn how to work with them in SAP HANA.
The Missing Pieces

Got bits of knowledge from various sources? This book will fill in the gaps with the complete picture of administration for SAP HANA.

Highlights include:

Architecture
Administration tools
Installation and updates
Scale-out
Backup, recover, and high availability
Repository and catalog objects
Tables
Sessions and transactions
User management and security
Roles and privileges
Performance analysis
Monitoring and root-cause analysis

Reading Sample

»HANA for DBAs.«

Richard Bremer works in SAP HANA product management and has been involved with SAP in-memory technologies since 2008. He started as a support consultant for SAP BW Accelerator, and moved to the SAP HANA topic in 2010, working in the RIG / Customer Solution Adoption (CSA) team.

Lars Breddemann is an SAP HANA product expert and SAP HANA Distinguished Engineer who has worked with SAP and databases since 1998. Having worked in SAP AGS product support since 2003, he has experience with multiple database technologies (Oracle, SAP MaxDB/liveCache), SAP Business Warehouse, and, since 2010, SAP HANA.

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