Basis Technology

For those customers who have not activated SAP Cloud ALM tenant, following instruction might be helpful for acquiring the Cloud product. SAP Cloud ALM is our application lifecycle management offering for cloud-centric customers. It provides... Read More »

The challenge: An SAP system , ECC 6.0 SPS11 running on Windows Server 2003 (!) with SQL 2005 The goal: Get the system running on Windows 2012 R2 with SQL 2012 The time frame: One weekend The path… Since there is no simple known way to perform... Read More »

Introduction Note: This is mainly applicable for Native HANA scenarios with XSA. After installing SAP HANA 2.x or upgrading from HANA 1.x to 2.x especially after the introduction of XS Advanced, SAP HANA generates multiple URLs for different... Read More »

This is part 2 of the blog series covering various options available in SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) to perform Database Refresh when using HANA as the database. Part 1: Refresh Scenarios With SAP Landscape Management (LaMa), Part 1: Across Azure... Read More »

In my 20-year span of SAP Technology BASIS, DBA, OS -seen it all- career, nothing could be as interesting as the topic of Infrastructure architecting and sizing. To the DBA it is the clichéd – ‘Science as well as an Art’. To the... Read More »

SAP ASCS High Availability using ERS explained I have read and written many blogs on SAP High Availability but people seem to struggle to understand the inner workings of the mechanism that makes the SAP central services instance highly... Read More »

A new version of a whitepaper “SAP Landscape Management and Integration with NetApp Storage for Cloud Environments” has been published. The whitepaper was jointly written by SAP and NetApp, highlighting how together we simplify the... Read More »

“Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.” – Richard Branson In line with the very same philosophy, SAP rebuilt SAP ECC from the ground up to create SAP S/4HANA in 2015 to take advantage of SAP HANA’s... Read More »

The recent release of SAP S/4HANA 2021 followed our secure development lifecycle to ensure that our customers will receive a secure product. With a complex solution such as SAP S/4HANA, however, security by design is not the only topic that both SAP... Read More »

Hi All, In this Blog Post, we are going to cover SPDD/SPAU adjustments while doing any Upgrade via SPAM/SAINT or SUM. This is my First Blog Post and request you to kindly correct me if any wrong information I have provided. I am writing this blog... Read More »