

SAP HANA Development with SAP Business Application Studio
philip.mugglestone just added two new video tutorials to the SAP HANA Cloud series about developing SAP HANA database applications using SAP Business Application Studio for the SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry environment..
In this post, you will find the video embedded with some additional information and resources.
What You Learn
You can watch the video tutorial in a little under 30 minutes. What you learn is
- How to use the templates and wizards of the SAP Business Application Studio for native SAP HANA application development
- How to create design-time artifacts and how to deploy and create database runtime objects
- How to perform database modeling including the creation of a simple calculation view
- how to configure access from a HDI Container to a standard schema
For an introduction to the SAP HANA Deployment Infrastructure (HDI), see our previous post
Documentation
For the documentation, see
For more information about SAP Business Application Studio, see
Code Samples on GitHub
As we know your time is precious, you can find the code snippet on our GitHub repository

Video Tutorials
Develop Apps
In the first tutorial we learn how to develop database applications based on HDI containers using SAP Business Application Studio. How to perform database modeling including the creation of a simple calculation view is also covered.
https://youtu.be/cZUBtACMZBE?list=PLkzo92owKnVzONfsNdQNmpPQvUT54UUAL
0:00 - Introduction and SAP Business Application Studio subscriptions
1:00 - Create Dev Space, open Workspace, and target the Cloud Foundry Org and Space
2:00 - Create Project from the SAP HANA Database Project template
3:45 - SAP Cloud Platform cockpit | Service Instances: HDI
4:40 - SAP HANA Projects with database connections to SAP HANA database explorer
5:30 - Create SAP HANA database artifact hdbtable using code sample
7:00 - Deploy artifact(s)
8:00 - Insert data
8:15 - Create calculation view
10:15 - Deploy
11:15 - Build and deploy MTA project
Access Schema from HDI Container
In the second tutorial we learn how to configure access from a HDI Container to a standard schema. Doing this enables visual database modeling of objects in the standard schema and is a prerequisite for access from SAP Analytics Cloud via the HANA Analytics Adapter.
https://youtu.be/MxsMM33Ef6Y?list=PLkzo92owKnVzONfsNdQNmpPQvUT54UUAL
0:00 - Introduction, HDI, and user-defined service
1:30 - Create technical user SAP HANA database explorer using code sample
3:30 - Create user-provided service (UPS) using code sample
5:00 - Create new SAP HANA Database project with HDI container
6:15 - Add UPS to mta.yaml
7:30 - Bind UPS to schema
8:00 - Create database artifact Grant (hdbgrants) using code sample
9:00 - Create database artifact synonym (hdbsynonym) using code sample
10:00 - Create database artifact role (hdbrole) using code sample
11:00 - Deploy
12:00 - Create calculation view
15:15 - Deploy
16:15 - Build and deploy MTA project
SAP HANA Native Application Dev Space extensions
The following extensions are included in the SAP HANA Native Application Dev Space bundle
- SAP HANA Calculation View Editor
- SAP HANA Database Explorer
- SAP HANA Tools
- MTA Tools

SAP HANA Project Template
Project from template proposes to create a new HDI service instance using the default database instance of the CF space. Assumes an SAP HANA Cloud instance is created and running.

Create SAP HANA Database Artifact
Use a wizard to create a design-time artifact (code) which will be deployed a runtime database object in the associated HDI container.

Deploy Artifact(s)
Deploy your artifacts bundled or one at a time.

Create Calculation View
Using the same wizard we can create calculation views (hdbcalculationview).

GUI Editor
For several artifacts like synonyms and roles a UI is available in addition to the code editor.

SAP HANA Database Explorer
The SAP HANA database explorer is easily accessible from the SAP Business Application Studio to view the runtime objects with data inside the HDI container.

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