Blogs tagged sql server 2012

We recently received some incidents from customers having problems to finish their database upgrade on SQL Server. An essential part of upgrading SQL Server is running the Database Upgrade Completion, part of the SAP Tools for MS SQL Server, which... Read More »

Often in Product Support, we receive support incidents asking how to remote connect to a SQL Server database. SAP NetWeaver (and all Business Suite systems based on NetWeaver, including SolMan) can connect to a database through 2 different... Read More »

Introduction At the SAP HANA Academy we are currently updating our tutorial videos about SAP HANA administration [SAP HANA Administration – YouTube]. One of the topics that we are working on is SAP HANA smart data access (SDA) [SAP HANA... Read More »

You probably have heard that SAP Product Support is creating Knowledge Base Articles with embedded videos. Our Product Support team is now working on to create articles with videos to help customers and partners on how to perform specific tasks,... Read More »

Hi everyone! I’m very proud to announce that as of November 1st, 2015 the new SCN Wiki SAP on SQL Server is available for community access in the following address: http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/SAPSQL/SAP+on+SQL+Server Make sure to... Read More »

There are several Data Provisioning techniques available within SAP HANA. These are “Smart Data Access” (SDA) and “Smart Data Integration” (SDI). Also available is the Hadoop Integration. This Document will cover the... Read More »

Hi everyone, Months ago I worked with some SAP customers where they had some problems to startup their SAP Netweaver system after implementing AlwaysOn feature on SQL Server. Basically the problem was strdbs.cmd script in yellow status and never... Read More »

Scenario: Main Data center + DR 3 physical servers for SQL Server (2 on main DC + 1 DR) AlwaysON SAP Application Servers hosted under a VMWARE cluster SAP Netweaver 7.40 SR 2 ABAP, media list: 51047515        SQL... Read More »

You’re back from your coffee break, and your SQL Server 2012 installation has completed successfully. What next? You’re ready to install your SAP application now, right? Not quite yet. There are a few configuration and housekeeping... Read More »

SQL Server 2012 is relatively easy to install, and the installation guide from SAP is very clear. However, there are a few guidelines from my own experience that may be of benefit to others performing this installation for the first time. The... Read More »