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Parallel Processing in SAP
New generations of CPUs do not provide any significant single-thread performance improvements. Instead, the number of logical CPU cores is increasing with each new CPU generation. You can significantly...
View ArticleEnd to End Setup for SAP HANA Large Instances
So, you are ready for “SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances” deployment, Great! And, you want to know the step by step process with screen shots to start the work? Then you are reading the right article....
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Customer experience with SAP BW FEMS-Pushdown
A few months ago we released a new SAP BW statement generator, which increases BW query performance for complex queries containing FEMS filters, see...
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Migrating to SAP HANA on Azure
The S/4HANA platform on the SAP HANA DBMS provides many functional improvements over SAP Business Suite 7, and additions to business processes that should provide customers with a compelling reason to...
View ArticleHigh Available ASCS for Windows on File Share – Shared Disk No Longer Required
SAP Highly Available ASCS Now Supports File Share UNC Source SAP has released documentation and a new Windows Cluster DLL that enables the SAP ASCS to leverage a SMB UNC source as opposed to a Cluster...
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Protecting SAP Solutions with Azure Site Recovery
Protect SAP Applications Most large and medium sized SAP solutions have some form of Disaster Recovery solution. The importance of robust and testable Disaster Recovery solutions has increased as more...
View ArticleNew SQL Server 2016 functionality helps SAP supportability
Due to the combined effort of the SAP – Microsoft Porting group the SQL Server Development team added a new functionality to the SQL Server UPDATE STATISTICS command and to the way SQL Server...
View ArticleFew interesting findings on HANA with MDC
Few interesting findings on HANA with MDC I was working on HANA with MDC and had few very interesting learnings. If you have been using non- MDC HANA databases, you may come across those scenarios....
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Distributed Availability Groups extended
SQL Server 2016 supports distributed availability groups (AG) as additional HA feature of the engine. Today we want to show how this feature can be used to transfer near-real-time productive data...
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File Server with SOFS and S2D as an Alternative to Cluster Shared Disk for...
We are excited to announce general availability of clustering of an SAP (A)SCS instance on Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) with file server, e.g. Scale Out File Server (SOFS) and Storage Spaces...
View ArticleSAP NetWeaver Installation on HANA database
This blog describes the SAP NetWeaver installation steps on the SAP HANA database – a step by step installation guide with the real screenshots! In this setup, the HANA Large Instance server is used to...
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Customer Experience with Columnstore on ERP
SAP released the report MSS_CS_CREATE a few months ago. Using this report, customers can create an additional Nonclustered Columnstore Index (NCCI) on any SAP ERP table. This has already been described...
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Improve SAP BW Performance by Applying the Flat Cube
Overview SAP released the Columnstore Optimized Flat Cube over two years ago. We want to give a brief explanation of the benefits and advantages of using the Flat Cube – and in consequence engage...
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SAP on Azure: General Update – January 2018
SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the Azure cloud platform. This blog includes updates, fixes, enhancements and best practice recommendations collated over...
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SAP on SQL Server: General Update – January 2018
SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the SAP on SQL Server platform. The key objective of the SAP on Windows SQL port is to deliver the best performance and...
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Setting Up Hana System Replication on Azure Hana Large Instances
This blog details a recent customer deployment by Cognizant SAP Cloud team on HANA Large Instances. From an architecture perspective of HANA Large Instances, the usage of HANA System Replication as...
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Very Large Database Migration to Azure – Recommendations & Guidance to Partners
SAP systems moved onto Azure cloud now commonly include large multinational “single global instance” systems and are many times larger than the first customer systems deployed when the Azure platform...
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Columnstore became default in SAP BW
Overview The following features have been optionally available in SAP BW on Microsoft SQL Server for several years: SQL Server Columnstore for BW cubes (as of SAP BW 7.0) Columnstore Optimized Flat...
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Flat Cube became default in SAP BW
Overview The following features have been optionally available in SAP BW on Microsoft SQL Server for several years: SQL Server Columnstore for BW cubes (as of SAP BW 7.0) See also...
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SAP on Azure: General Update – June 2018
SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the Azure platform. The key objective of the Azure cloud platform is to deliver the best performance and availability at...
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