Week 1: Introduction and Data Modeling

Unit 1: Course Introduction

Course introduction
What is this course about and what can you expect?

Introduction to SAP Datasphere

▪ A practical example with hands-on exercises will
guide you through the weeks and units
▪ Learn how to leverage features and functions
▪ You will get a very good understanding of how to
use the solution for real world use cases
▪ The focus is on data modeling and extending
your model as new tasks arise

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Week and unit overview

Week 1
▪ Focus on modeling and enhancing existing models
▪ Integrating remote sources, data flows, data integration monitor
▪ How to share data and apply row-level security

Week 2
▪ Advanced modeling using the analytic model & business builder
▪ Data marketplace & intelligent lookup
▪ Repository, impact and lineage, catalog
▪ Command line interface

Week 3
▪ Additional useful components of SAP Datasphere
– Administration, user management, transport, business content
– Analytics and planning integration, BW bridge, and more
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The scenario

Your task is to start building the analytics for the

“Best run bikes” company
▪ The company provides you tenants for
SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud
▪ The units will have different tasks and we guide you
on how to solve them
▪ You learn about the system setup and your own
dedicated space to work with your data

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Course introduction
How to get access to a tenant?

▪ Navigate to sap.com/datasphere
▪ Click on the Experience SAP Datasphere button or
alternatively use the following link
https://www.sap.com/registration/trial.4d48ec23-
eadf-4399-8595-ac3f9c66c64f.html
▪ Enter the mandatory details in the registration form
and proceed using the Submit button.
▪ You then get an email to activate your account by
clicking the button Click to activate your account
▪ After successful registration your login details
(user ID and password) will be emailed to you

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How to get access to a tenant?

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The home screen

▪ Navigation pane provides direct access to all

essential functions
▪ Menu entries and functions are visible based
on user authorizations
▪ Middle section contains recent news, links to
documentation, and most important functions
▪ Help icon in top right corner gives easy access
to in-app help and SAP Help Portal
▪ Application switch lets you navigate to
SAP Analytics Cloud

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Get to know the home screen and the main menu

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What are spaces?

▪ Spaces are secured virtual work environments

which
– provide isolation for metadata objects and space
resources
– define storage quota, control resource usage,
and workload class settings per space
– maintain space-specific source system
connections and a common time dimension
– manage user access for space members
– enable sharing of data and currency conversion
settings with other spaces

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Spaces provide your business process with the right data

LOB /
FINANCE SALES HR
SPACE SPACE SPACE Project
SPACE

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Spaces

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Useful information

Useful resources during and after the course

▪ SAP community pages
– Get started
– Best practices
– Business content
– SAP BW Bridge
▪ SAP online documentation
▪ SAP tutorials for developers
▪ SAP learning journey

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What you have learned in this unit

▪ Overview of the course and its structure

▪ The scenario used to guide you through the units
over the different weeks
▪ How to register for an account on a guided
experience trial system and get access to your own
space
▪ The focus areas of the course
▪ The home screen and main menu structure of the
solution
▪ What spaces are and how you can use and configure
them for the task ahead
▪ Where to find useful information outside of this
course

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Week 1: Introduction and Data Modeling
Unit 2: Your First Model and Report
Your first model and report
Your task

▪ In unit 1 you got access to the system

▪ While IT is setting up the system connectivity in the
backend, you can already start
▪ Upload the provided sales orders sample file
▪ The report should show the revenue by sales
organization
▪ Get an overview of how to achieve that

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Data Builder overview – Editors

The Data Builder offers a collection of editors

to create artifacts in the data layer like
▪ Table Editor
▪ Graphical View Editor
▪ SQL View Editor
▪ Entity Relationship Editor
▪ Analytic Model Editor
▪ Data Flow Editor
▪ Intelligent Lookup Editor
▪ Replication Flow Editor
▪ Task Chain Editor

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Data Builder overview – More features

The Data Builder offers more features in addition

to the editors like
▪ Enabling currency conversion
▪ Import data and artifacts
– CSV files
– Objects from CSN/JSON files
– Entities
– Remote tables
▪ Mass deployment and deletion of artifacts
▪ Share artifacts
▪ Show impact and lineage analysis for artifacts

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Import Sales Order CSV file

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Your first model and report
Import Sales Order CSV file

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Your first model and report
Table Editor

▪ Assign semantic usage type:

analytical dataset, dimension, text,
hierarchy or relational dataset
▪ Define primary keys, compound keys,
default values, column visibility,
associations, field names, data types,
descriptions, time-dependency, and
semantics
▪ Delete current and upload new data
from files
▪ Preview data and share tables with
other spaces
▪ Allow to refresh the metadata for the
definition of remote tables and open
SQL schema tables

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Create your first graphical view

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Your first model and report
Create your first graphical view

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Graphical View Editor

▪ Views on top of remote, replicated, or

local tables
– Define measures and attributes in
analytical datasets
– Create parent-child or level-based
hierarchies in dimension views
– Support multi-language text fields
– Define unions, joins, aggregations,
rename and remove columns, add
calculations, currency conversion, and
filters
▪ Define exposure for consumption and
sharing with other spaces
▪ Apply data access controls, input
parameters, view persistency
▪ View the data at each node
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Your first model and report
Create your first story in SAP Analytics Cloud

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Your first model and report
Create your first story in SAP Analytics Cloud

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Options for analytic consumption and openness with external tooling

External
Consumption API

SAP Analytics Cloud MS Office Integration APIs for external consumption

▪ Direct consumption of models in ▪ SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for ▪ Freedom of choice to use a
SAP Analytics Cloud (live Microsoft Office 365 (live consumption interface
connection) connection) online or desktop (SQL/OData) to connect frontend
▪ Any number of SAP Datasphere version tooling to exposed views
systems can be connected to any ▪ SAP Datasphere with ▪ Make your data models accessible
number of SAP Analytics Cloud SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office for consumption tools and other
systems 2.8 SP14+ applications
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Your first model and report
What you have learned in this unit

▪ Overview of the Data Builder

▪ How to upload a flat file
▪ The Table Editor and its features
▪ The Graphical View Editor and its basic features
▪ The Application Switcher
▪ How to create a simple story in SAP Analytics Cloud

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and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future developments, products, and/or platforms, directions, and
functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time for any reason
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functionality. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and they
should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
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Week 1: Introduction and Data Modeling
Unit 3: Connect to a Remote Source and
Add a Time Dimension
Connect to a remote source and add a time dimension
Your task

▪ In unit 2 you created your first model and story

▪ IT has set up the system connectivity in the backend
▪ You do not need to start from scratch; simply replace
your local table with a remote table
▪ Add a time dimension to your model and story

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Replace your local table with a remote table

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Replace your local table with a remote table

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Connection overview (1)

Connections provide access to data from a

wide range of sources: cloud and on-premise
sources, SAP and non-SAP sources, and
partner tools.
▪ You only see spaces you are a member of in the
Space overview
▪ Create, edit, delete, and validate local
connections
▪ Pause and restart connections with real-time
replications
▪ Integrate Open Connectors and connect to
supported third-party data sources

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Connection overview (2)

SAP Databases & Hyperscaler & External

Applications Generic Connections Cloud Apps Tool Support

SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA Cloud SAP HANA On-Prem & Cloud Google Cloud Storage Google BigQuery SAP Data Intelligence* SAP Data Services*

SAP ERP ABAP Oracle Microsoft SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure Blob Storage SAP HANA Smart Data Integration*

SAP BW/4HANA Model Transfer Generic JDBC Generic OData Azure Data Lake Store Gen1 SAP Landscape Transformation*

SAP BW SAP HANA Data Lake Generic SFTP Local CSV File Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 Adverity APOS* Datazeit*

SAP HANA, Data Lake Files Generic Cloud Data Integration Amazon S3 Amazon Athena Informatica* Precog Snaplogic*

SAP SuccessFactors SAP Fieldglass Amazon Redshift HDFS

SAP Marketing Cloud Open Connectors

SAP Help: Connection Overview Available Partner * No dedicated connection tile

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Virtual data access

▪ Virtual access using remote tables, which points

to a table in an external system
▪ Access remote data as if it were stored in local
tables
▪ Remote tables access data without copying the
data
▪ Data is transferred through the network each
time a query is executed
▪ Restrict data transfer using central filters and
selected columns only*
▪ Seamless switching between remote access and
data replication (or snapshots) without the need
to change the data models

* Filtering depends on source connection and column data types.

See more information in the online documentation.
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Real-time replication and snapshots via remote tables

▪ Switch from remote access to snapshots or real-

time replication for change-data-capture (CDC)
enabled tables
▪ Schedule snapshot loading for remote tables
▪ Create partitions for snapshot and real-time
replication to split larger data transfers and execute
these single transactions in parallel
▪ Ability to start and stop, pause and resume, and
cancel real-time replication

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How to create a new connection

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Your story with remote data

▪ Just refresh your story

▪ There is no need to change anything else
after the local table has been replaced by
the remote table
▪ Your story now shows all data for all years
▪ You want to show a time split for years,
quarters, months, and so on
▪ This is where the time dimension comes in

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How to create a time dimension and use it in your story

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The time dimension

▪ Enrich your models and stories with a time

dimension
▪ Create the time dimension in Space Management
▪ Enrich your models with years, quarters, months,
and days
▪ By creating hierarchies based on a specific
granularity, time dimensions also allow you to drill
down on stories
▪ A time table is created only once per space

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Associations

▪ Associations can be created in the Entity

Relationship Model, Table, and View Editors
▪ Create an association from any table or view
to any other table or view at any level of the
data layer
▪ This creates a join, which is only executed at
runtime when the associated data is queried
▪ Analytical datasets can associate to
– Dimensions or
– Text entities
▪ Dimensions can associate to
– Dimensions or
– Text entities or
– Hierarchies

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What you have learned in this unit

▪ Overview of available connections and the

connectivity options for remote tables
▪ How to replace a source table with a remote table
while the models and reports on top stay stable
▪ The time-dimension feature and how to create the
time tables and time dimension in a space
▪ Associations and how to use them with your time
dimension

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Week 1: Introduction and Data Modeling
Unit 4: Enhance Your Model with Joins and
Dimensions
Enhance your model with joins and dimensions
Your task

▪ You are interested in enhancing your simple story

with the top five sales partners per region and year.
▪ As the sales partners show only the partner ID in the
story, you want to add the partners’ company
names instead of IDs.
▪ Next to this you also are asked to add information
about the best selling products.
▪ To achieve that, you will have to learn
– how to create dimension tables,
– how to join a table, and
– how to leverage some other important features.

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Enhance your model with joins and dimensions
Add your business partner dimension

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Enhance your model with joins and dimensions
Enhance your story with the top five sales partners per region and year

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Remote tables

Virtual Access Persisted

Real-time virtual data access Single table replication

▪ Leave data in the source system and ▪ Real-time table replication for up-to-date
access remotely when needed data
▪ No upfront data movement ▪ Materialize views and update snapshots
▪ Federation is supported across various using automated, scheduled data loads
sources and hyperscalers ▪ Schedule in task chains
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Semantic usage and semantic types

▪ When creating a table or view there are several

options for the semantic usage to choose from:
– Analytical dataset to indicate that your entity
contains one or more measures that can be
analyzed
– Relational dataset contains columns with basically
no specific analytical purpose
– Dimensions indicate that your entity contains
attributes that are used to analyze and categorize
measures defined in other entities, like product
master data
– Hierarchy to indicate that your entity contains
parent-child relationships for members in a
dimension
– Text to indicate that your entity contains strings
with language identifiers to translate text attributes

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Dimensions

▪ Dimensions indicate that your entity contains

attributes that can be used to analyze and
categorize measure defined in other entities
▪ Typical types of dimensions include:
– Geography – region, country, state, city
– Product – range, category, product
– Business Partner – customer, supplier, partner
– Organization – company, department,
organizational unit
– Time – year, quarter, day

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Load schedule and snapshots

▪ Use snapshot replication to copy the full set of data

from your source object
▪ For a successful load, you will see the status
“Available” and the date and time of the latest
update
▪ Schedule snapshot loading for remote tables,
orchestrated via task chains

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What are the best selling products?

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What are the best selling products?

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Joins and unions

▪ Use join or union operators to combine data

from multiple sources
▪ Several types of SQL joins available:
– Cross
– Full
– Inner (default)
– Left
– Right
▪ Union properties available:
– Union All
– Union
▪ Set properties and mapping specifics to fit your
needs

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What you have learned in this unit

▪ How to import remote tables from Data Builder

overview and from within the View Editor
▪ The semantic usage of tables and the available
semantic types
▪ Dimensions and when to use them
▪ Creation and scheduling of snapshots for remote
tables
▪ How to join and union datasets

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Week 1: Introduction and Data Modeling
Unit 5: Data Flows, Task Chains, and SQL Views
Data flows, task chains, and SQL views
Your task

▪ The story needs to be enhanced such that it also

shows the Top Sales Person per region
▪ This data is available in two remote tables that must
be brought into SAP Datasphere using data flows so
that all the data can be joined and stored in one local
table in the space
▪ To ensure that data loading is a systematic process,
you must start creating a sequence of loading tasks
in a task chain

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Data flows

▪ Data integration from variety of data sources

▪ Easy-to-use data flow modeling experience for
ETL requirements
▪ Load and combine data from different data
sources, both SAP and non-SAP
▪ Use standard transformation capabilities and
scripting for advanced requirements
▪ Apply a generic filter-based delta or select only
specific columns to reduce the amount of data
that needs to be transferred
▪ Dynamic memory allocation and auto restart
option

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Script operator in data flows

Standard Transformations Scripting

▪ Combine data sets with no-code operators for Projection, ▪ Advanced transformation requirements like
Aggregation, Join, Filter, Union, Add Table extraction of text
▪ Data source can be tables, ABAP CDS views, OData, ▪ Embedded scripting editor in data flow modeler
remote files (JSON/JSONL, CSV, ORC, EXCEL, or ▪ Support of standard Python 3 scripting language
PARQUET)
▪ Target mode: Append/Upsert, Truncate, Delete
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Data flows

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Task chains

▪ Group multiple tasks into a task chain and run

them once manually, or periodically through a
schedule
▪ Tasks chain scheduling may include execution of
– Remote table replication
– View persistency, and
– Data flow runs
▪ Serial processing
▪ Customizable email notification of success and/or
failure of entire task chains

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Task chains execution

Execute task chains directly from the Run and/or schedule task chain execution
task chain modeling screen from the Data Integration Monitor like other
replication tasks

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Task chains

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SQL View Builder

▪ Create SQL views to query sources in powerful

SQL editor along with drag-and-drop support
▪ Two ways to compose the SQL view
– SQL: writing a standard SQL query using
Select statements and operators such as Join
and Union
– SQLScript: to produce a table function
▪ Subset of SQL syntax supported by
SAP HANA Cloud

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View persistence

▪ Graphical and SQL views can be configured as

persisted views to materialize the output result
▪ Improve performance for views with heavy
transformations or slow remote sources
▪ Result set is persisted similar to remote table
snapshots or data flow target tables
▪ Store only required data instead of full 1:1 remote
table replication
▪ Monitoring, scheduling, and view analyzer access
via the Data Integration Monitor
▪ Supports partitioning and partition-wise refresh
▪ Can be used in task chains (optional)

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View persistence

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Associate Employees dimension to dataset

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What you have learned in this unit

▪ How to use the Data Flow Editor

▪ How to use the script operator for data flows
▪ How to use task chains
▪ How to persist a view

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Week 1: Introduction and Data Modeling
Unit 6: Sharing Data, Access Controls, and ER
Models
Sharing data, access controls, and ER models
Your task

▪ You have created a story that shows a good view

over sales, business partners, products and
employees
▪ Need to enhance the product information into the
Sales Order view and then share it with the sales
organization for their reporting
▪ Use the Products view from the master data space
and share the resulting Sales Order view to the
Sales Org space for consumption
▪ But before releasing this report, we need to ensure
that users see data based on their authorizations
which is region-specific – use data access control for
the same

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Hierarchies

▪ Add a hierarchy to a dimension to support drill-

down and drill-up in BI clients
▪ Supported hierarchy types
– Parent-Child
– Level-Based
– External Hierarchy

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Hierarchies

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Data access controls

▪ Allow more granular access to data on row level

▪ Any user viewing data will see only the rows for
which they are authorized, based on the specified
Data
criteria Data
View Access
▪ Applied on artifacts in the data layer Layer Control
▪ Cannot be overruled
▪ Data access controls are defined once and can be
applied to multiple artifacts in the data layer

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Cross-space sharing

▪ Share a Data Builder table or view to another space to allow that space's members to use it as a source for
their objects
▪ Your space is a secure area, and its entities and other objects cannot be seen in other spaces unless you
choose to share them
▪ When you share an entity to another space, users in that space can use it as a source for their views and
other objects

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Entity relationship models

▪ Definition of entity relationship models

▪ Design physical or remote database models
▪ Reverse model engineering
▪ Re-use existing entities (table, view) from
Data Builder
▪ Add new entities on-the-fly
▪ In-editor real-time data preview
▪ Integrated impact and lineage analysis
▪ Model import / export

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Summary

What you have learned in unit 6

▪ How to create hierarchies
▪ How to use data access controls
▪ How to use cross-space sharing
▪ The entity relationship modeler

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Data Integration Monitor
Your task

▪ This is a section called “Know Your SAP Datasphere”

where you will learn more about SAP Datasphere
capabilities that range from integration through
hybrid scenarios to administration
▪ The theme for this unit is integration and monitoring.
In this unit, we will learn how to analyze integration
jobs using the SAP Datasphere UI as well as the
underlying database access. Furthermore, we will
learn how to use the system monitor to understand
the tenant health and status.

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Overview

▪ Central monitoring for remote tables, data flows,

persistent views, remote queries, and task chains
▪ Ability to start, stop, pause, resume, and cancel
real-time replication ​for change-data-capture (CDC)
enabled tables
▪ Switch seamlessly between remote access, real-
time replication, and snapshots
▪ Add and manage persistent views
▪ Create and manage schedules for data flows, task
chains, snapshots on remote tables, and persistent
views
▪ Remote query monitoring and display active SQL
statement
▪ Enable statistics on virtual tables

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Data Integration Monitor – Demo

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System monitor

▪ The system monitor tool allows administrators to

monitor the performance of their system and
identify storage, task, out-of-memory, and other
issues across all spaces
– Disk and memory assignment and consumption
– Out-of-memory events
– Failed tasks (24h/48h)
– An overview of all tasks across spaces, and more
– The top five statements with the highest peak
memory consumption and run duration
– Drill down to task log and statements

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System monitor – Demo

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Monitoring configuration

Expensive Statements Tracing

▪ Analyze SQL queries that exceed one of the
following thresholds –
– CPU time, memory, run duration

Monitoring View Enablement

▪ Select up to 2 spaces that get access to the
monitoring views in the Data Builder
– Administrator privilege required to enable access

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DB analysis user

▪ Supports monitoring, analyzing, tracing, and

debugging of runtime database
▪ DB analysis user has read privilege over the
underlying runtime database (with optional
access to space schema)
▪ Create user with pre-configured expiration date
▪ Use the DB analysis user for
– Accessing SAP HANA Cloud cockpit
– Consuming SAP HANA Cloud monitoring
views

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SAP HANA Cloud cockpit

▪ Administration tool for administering and monitoring

runtime database
▪ Use DB analysis user to access the cockpit to get
read-only view
▪ What can you do with the cockpit –
– Monitoring
– Error analysis & trace files
– Performance monitor
– Workload analyzer
– User & role analysis

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SAP HANA Cloud cockpit

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What you have learned in this unit

▪ How to use the Data Integration Monitor and its

capabilities
▪ How to use the system monitor to understand tenant
health and status
▪ How to configure the system for monitoring
▪ How to use the DB analysis user for monitoring
▪ The SAP HANA Cloud cockpit

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