Flat Cube became default in SAP BW
First published on MSDN on Apr 26, 2018 by Martin Merdes. This blog post might be outdated by now. The latest documentation regarding SQL Server Columnstore on SAP is available in https://www.sap.com/documents/2019/04/023e5928-487d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html and in https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2116639 The performance impact of SQL Server Columnstore is described in https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Running-SAP-Applications-on-the/Performance-evolution-of-SAP-BW-on-SQL-Server/ba-p/368073Columnstore became default in SAP BW
First published on MSDN on Apr 26, 2018 by Martin Merdes. This blog post might be outdated by now. The latest documentation regarding SQL Server Columnstore on SAP is available in https://www.sap.com/documents/2019/04/023e5928-487d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html and in https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2116639 The performance impact of SQL Server Columnstore is described in https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Running-SAP-Applications-on-the/Performance-evolution-of-SAP-BW-on-SQL-Server/ba-p/368073Improve SAP BW Performance by Applying the Flat Cube
First published on MSDN on Jan 03, 2018 by Martin Merdes. This blog post might be outdated by now. The latest documentation regarding SQL Server Columnstore on SAP is available in https://www.sap.com/documents/2019/04/023e5928-487d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html and in https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2116639 The performance impact of SQL Server Columnstore is described in https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Running-SAP-Applications-on-the/Performance-evolution-of-SAP-BW-on-SQL-Server/ba-p/368073Customer Experience with Columnstore on ERP
First published on MSDN on DEC 18, 2017 by Martin Merdes. This blog post might be outdated by now. The latest documentation regarding SQL Server Columnstore on SAP is available in https://www.sap.com/documents/2019/04/023e5928-487d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html and in https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2116639New SQL Server 2016 functionality helps SAP supportability
First published on MSDN on Aug 18, 2017 Due to the combined effort of the SAP - Microsoft Porting group the SQL Server Development team added a new functionality to the SQL Server UPDATE STATISTICS command and to the way SQL Server automatically updates statistics.Customer experience with SAP BW FEMS-Pushdown
First published on MSDN on Jun 30, 2017 by Martin Merdes. This blog post might be outdated by now. The latest documentation regarding SQL Server Columnstore on SAP is available in https://www.sap.com/documents/2019/04/023e5928-487d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html and in https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2116639 The performance impact of SQL Server Columnstore is described in https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Running-SAP-Applications-on-the/Performance-evolution-of-SAP-BW-on-SQL-Server/ba-p/368073Parallel Processing in SAP
First published on MSDN on May 18, 2017 by Martin Merdes. This blog post might be outdated by now. The latest documentation regarding SQL Server Columnstore on SAP is available in https://www.sap.com/documents/2019/04/023e5928-487d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html and in https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2116639 The performance impact of SQL Server Columnstore is described in https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Running-SAP-Applications-on-the/Performance-evolution-of-SAP-BW-on-SQL-Server/ba-p/368073Performance evolution of SAP BW on SQL Server
First published on MSDN on May 08, 2017 by Martin Merdes. This blog post might be outdated by now. The latest documentation regarding SQL Server Columnstore on SAP is available in https://www.sap.com/documents/2019/04/023e5928-487d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html and in https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2116639Using Columnstore on ERP tables
First published on MSDN on Apr 13, 2017 by Martin Merdes. This blog post might be outdated by now. The latest documentation regarding SQL Server Columnstore on SAP is available in https://www.sap.com/documents/2019/04/023e5928-487d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html and in https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2116639More Questions From Customers About SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption – TDE + Azure Key Vault
First published on MSDN on Apr 04, 2017 Recently many customers have been moving from AIX and HPUX to Windows 2016 & SQL Server 2016 running on Azure as these UNIX platforms are no longer mainstream, developed or invested by their vendorsMost of these customers are deploying TDE to protect the Database files and backups.
