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SAP HANA Interview Questions

Mention what is SAP HANA?

SAP HANA stands for High Performance Analytical Appliance- in-memory computing engine. HANA is linked to ERP systems; Frontend modeling studio can be used for replication server management and load control.

Mention the two types of Relational Data stored in HANA?

The two types of relational data stored in HANA includes
Row Store
Column Store

Mention what is the role of the persistence layer in SAP HANA?

SAP HANA has an in-memory computing engine and access the data straightaway without any backup. To avoid the risk of losing data in case of hardware failure or power cutoff, persistence layer comes as a savior and stores all the data in the hard drive which is not volatile.

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Mention what is modeling studio?

Modeling studio in HANA performs multiple task like

Declares which tables are stored in HANA, first part is to get the meta-data and then schedule data replication jobs
Manage Data Services to enter the data from SAP Business Warehouse and other systems
Manage ERP instances connection, the current release does not support connecting to several ERP instances
Use data services for the modeling
Do modeling in HANA itself
essential licenses for SAP BO data services

Mention what are the different compression techniques?

There are three different compression techniques

Run-length encoding
Cluster encoding
Dictionary encoding

Which companies are providing SAP HANA hardware appliances?

There are total 11 vendors for SAP HANA hardware appliances. Most common are −
Dell
IBM
HP
Cisco
Lenovo

What are the different license keys type in HANA system?

Temporary License key
Permanent License Key

What is latency?

Latency is referred to the length of time to replicate data from the source system to the target system.

Write about the types of packages in HANA.

There are two types of packages in HANA such as Structural package and Non-structural package.
Structural package has sub-packages but not repository objects whereas Non-structural package contains both sub-packages and repository objects.

Describe column based and row based approach?

Column based approach is a sequential database approach is followed. Tables are stored in a sequence of columns here
Row based approach is a traditional relational database approach is followed. It uses a sequence of rows store tables.
11) What is the language used to develop SAP HANA program and mention the operating system supported by SAP HANA?
The SAP HANA database is developed using C++ and at present, the operating system supported by SAP HANA is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server x86-64 (SLES) 11 SP

Mention what is the role of master controller job in SAP HANA?

The job is arranged on demand and is responsible for

Creating database triggers and logging table into the source system
Creating Synonyms
Writing new entries in admin tables in SLT server when a table is replicated/loaded

Explain how SQL statement is processed?

In the HANA database, each SQL statement is implemented in the reference of the transaction. New session is allotted to a new transaction.

Explain how you can avoid unnecessary information from being stored?

To avoid unnecessary information from being stored, you have to pause the
replication by stopping the schema related jobs.

Mention what is the role of master controller job in SAP HANA?

The job is arranged on demand and is responsible for
Creating database triggers and logging table into the source system
Creating Synonyms
Writing new entries in admin tables in SLT server when a table is replicated/loaded

Explain what happens if the replication is suspended for a longer period of time or system outage of SLT or HANA system?

If the replication is suspended for a longer period of time, the size of the
logging tables increases.

What is the language SAP HANA is developed in?

The SAP HANA database is developed in C++.

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What is the purpose of master job ?

Every 5 seconds, the monitoring job checks in the SAP HANA system whether there are new tasks and, if so, triggers the master control jobs. It also deletes the processed entries (tasks) from table RS_ORDER and writes statistics entries into table RS_STATUS

What is the purpose of Migration Object Definition Job ?

This job defines the migration object of a specific table, which is the fundamental object for LT replication. The migration object definition should normally be quite fast for all tables.

What is SLT?

SLT stands for SAP Landscape Transformation which is a trigger based replication. SLT replication server is the replication technology to pass data from source system to the target system. The source can be either SAP or non-SAP. Target system is SAP HANA system which contains HANA database.

October 31, 2019
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