Month: March 2019

First published on MSDN on Nov 21, 2017

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 ser… Continue reading SAP NetWeaver Installation on HANA database→

First published on MSDN on Nov 14, 2017

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.

… Continue reading File Server with SOFS and S2D as an Alternative to Cluster Shared Disk for Clustering of an SAP (A)SCS Instance in Azure is Generally Available→

First published on MSDN on Oct 12, 2017

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… Continue reading Distributed Availability Groups extended→

First published on MSDN on Sep 21, 2017

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 a… Continue reading Few interesting findings on HANA with MDC→

First published on MSDN on Aug 18, 2017

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… Continue reading New SQL Server 2016 functionality helps SAP supportability→

First published on MSDN on Aug 10, 2017

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 soluti… Continue reading Protecting SAP Solutions with Azure Site Recovery→

First published on MSDN on Aug 10, 2017

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 opp… Continue reading High Available ASCS for Windows on File Share – Shared Disk No Longer Required→

First published on MSDN on Jul 01, 2017

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 reas… Continue reading Migrating to SAP HANA on Azure→