{"id":1790,"date":"2012-08-12T15:56:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T13:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2012-08-12T15:57:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T13:57:41","slug":"getting-into-sap-hana-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/getting-into-sap-hana-part-1","title":{"rendered":"Getting into SAP HANA (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the number of tweets in my TL the <strong>SAP HANA<\/strong> hype is getting bigger and bigger each day, so I guess it is time to step in. But, where to begin? I&#8217;ve been watching this whole development over the past year from a far distance so I know a bit about the purpose and possibilities of HANA, but I don&#8217;t have the complete overview and I also lack the hands-on experience with the HANA tools.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I got the SAP HANA Studio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/go\/portal\/prtroot\/docs\/webcontent\/uuid\/10e6e3ff-6081-2f10-e690-829e62f29a26\" target=\"_blank\">software<\/a> from the SCN site. Installation on Windows 7 went without any problems. At Interdobs we rent a HANA box on <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/sap\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Web Services<\/a> (in the cloud) and I managed to launch it and connect to it with SAP HANA Studio. With AWS you only have to pay for what you use, so this is obviously a cheaper way to start with HANA than buying a 80k box which you also have to maintain yourself.<\/p>\n<p>So, having everything set up and ready to go, my journey ended a few minutes later. The HANA box was obviously very very empty (besides some technical tables) and I had no idea what to do with it; how to build tables and load some data.<\/p>\n<p>Time to take a few steps back. Sven van Leuken posted a link on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.svenvanleuken.com\/?p=404\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> about a &#8216;free SAP HANA certification&#8217;. This is a nice start! Not only is this a test to check your HANA knowledge, it also provides an introductory\/overview course for HANA.<\/p>\n<p>This 80 minutes <a href=\"https:\/\/websmp208.sap-ag.de\/~sapidb\/011000358700000747712012E\" target=\"_blank\">online course<\/a> covers the following subjects (login required):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SAP HANA Solution Overview for Solution Consultants<\/li>\n<li>SAP HANA Technical Overview<\/li>\n<li>SAP HANA Overview of Data Provisioning<\/li>\n<li>SAP HANA Overview of Data Replication<\/li>\n<li>SAP HANA Overview of Information Models<\/li>\n<li>SAP HANA Data Analysis and Reporting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After the course you can take a test and if you pass (yeah you will pass, it is easy if you pay some attention) you&#8217;ll get some kind of certification that you now are a Level 1 SAP HANA Solution consultant, whatever this means.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after watching this course I had a far better understanding of the HANA landscape, its building blocks and possibilities. But, it remained quite high-level and\u00a0didn\u2019t cover the actual usage of the SAP HANA Studio tooling. Let&#8217;s look into that another time!<\/p>\n<p>To be continued&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the number of tweets in my TL the SAP HANA hype is getting bigger and bigger each day, so I guess it is time to step in. But, where to begin? I&#8217;ve been watching this whole development over the past year from a far distance so I know a bit about the purpose and possibilities of HANA, but I don&#8217;t have the complete overview and I also lack the hands-on experience with the HANA tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,56,4],"tags":[166,167,295,165],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knowledge-sharing","category-new-technology","category-sap","tag-amazon-web-services","tag-hana","tag-sap-hana","tag-sap-hana-studio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKaa2-sS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2122,"url":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/getting-into-sap-hana-part-sap-hana-starter-book","url_meta":{"origin":1790,"position":0},"title":"Getting into SAP HANA (part 3): SAP HANA Starter book","author":"Xavier Hacking","date":"February 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Last year I got a bit stuck when playing around with the SAP HANA Studio on our Amazon AWS HANA setup. 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