In the previous post I showed the complete end-to-end scenario of using synonyms in XS Advanced. In this post I will show, how more flexibility can be achieved. The flexibility options do not really depend on whether accessing a classical schema or ...

In the previous post I introduced synonyms in XS Advanced (XSA) and created a very simple synonym. Now I will create synonyms pointing to objects I defined by myself. Accessing Objects in a Classical Schema I assume, that the external schema I want t...

Why Synonyms? A complex HANA data warehouse might use several DB schemas in which tables, views and other DB objects reside. E.g., there might be a replicated ERP schema managed by SLT, a Netweaver/BW schema managed by the Netweaver Stack, and a “n...

When I started to write a document on the usage of synonyms in XS Advanced, I noticed, that even though most people I talked to knew how synonyms work in principle, most people (including me) had their problems when it came to details. Whereas in cla...