HA400 ABAP® Programming for SAP HANA®

Course announcements
In this course, you learn how you can use SAP HANA and new features in the ABAP programming language to optimize existing ABAP code and to develop innovative ABAP applications to enhance your business.

Goals
This course will prepare you to:
develop more concise and well-performing ABAP programs using new features of the ABAP programming language
develop and optimize ABAP applications that access data stored in the SAP HANA Database

Prerequisites
Essential:
Basic Knowledge of SAP HANA
BC400
BC401
Experience in ABAP Programming, esp. Open SQL (joins, views, aggregations)

Recommended:
The HA100 course provides a good understanding of SAP HANA and it is highly recommended for participants who want to attend this course
HA150
BC404

Content
Introduction
- Understanding SAP HANA and how it impacts the ABAP development paradigm
- Introduction to ABAP Development Tools (also known as ABAP in Eclipse)

Taking ABAP to SAP HANA
- Accessing SAP HANA as a Secondary Database
- Tools to detect potential functional and performance issues when migrating to SAP HANA: Code Inspector and ABAP Test Cockpit, ABAP Trace and ABAP Profiler, SQL Trace
- Tools to prioritize performance issues: SQL Monitor, SQL Performance Tuning Worklist
- Performance Rules and Guidelines for ABAP in the context of SAP HANA

Database Independent Code-to-Data
- New Open SQL
- Defining advanced views using Core Data Services (CDS) and CDS Associations in ABAP
- Incorporating Authorization Checks with CDS in ABAP

SAP HANA specific Code-to-Data
- Using native SQL and ABAP Data Base Connectivity (ADBC)
- Creating, using and debugging ABAP Managed Database Procedures

Consuming SAP HANA Objects in ABAP
- Consuming SAP HANA views in ABAP using native SQL and ADBC
- Consuming SAP HANA database procedures using native SQL and ADBC

SAP HANA Proxy Objects
- Creating and using External Views
- Database Procedure Proxies
- HANA Transport Container

Advanced Topics
- Using SAP HANA Full Text Search in ABAP
- Enabling input fields for type-ahead search
- SAP List Viewer (ALV) for SAP HANA

Notes
This course is for developers and consultants who are familiar with programming database access using ABAP and ABAP Objects programming and want to learn how to use SAP HANA to speed up such access.
The course covers many new ABAP features for database access that are not limited to SAP HANA as underlying database.