SAP ABAP HANA Additions

HANA SQLScript Reference :

Click to access SAP_HANA_SQL_Script_Reference_en.pdf

SHINE Ref :

Click to access SAP_HANA_Interactive_Education_SHINE_en.pdf

Code push down has been the key with HANA but with AMDP (  ABAP Managed Database Procedures ) and CDS ( Core Data Services ), the extra effort of creating objects in HANA as well as ABAP doesn’t need to be done anymore.

AMDP :ABAP Managed Database Procedures are a new feature in AS ABAP allowing developers to write database procedures directly in ABAP. You can think of a Database Procedure as a function stored and executed in the database. The implementation language varies from one database system to another. In SAP HANA it is SQL Script. Using AMDP allows developers to create and execute those database procedures in the ABAP environment using ABAP methods and ABAP data types.AMDPs are introduced to easily enable you to get the best out of ABAP for HANA following the “code push-down” paradigm first introduced with SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.4 .

Creating an AMDP is as easy as it can get in ABAP. You can simply implement SQLScript in an ABAP method:

METHOD <meth> BY DATABASE PROCEDURE
FOR <db>
LANGUAGE <db_lang>
[OPTIONS <db_options>]
[USING <db_entities>].

< Insert SQLScript code here >

ENDMETHOD.

– Every class with AMDP must use interface IF_AMDP_MARKER_HDB.

AMDPs are visible through SE80 but can’t be edited from there.