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 This blog post might be outdated by now.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 This blog post might be outdated by now.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/368073Very Large Database Migration to Azure – Recommendations & Guidance to Partners
First published on MSDN on Apr 10, 2018 SAP systems moved onto Azure cloud now commonly include large multinational "single global instance" systems and are many times larger than the first customer systems deployed when the Azure platform was first certified for SAP workloads some years agoVery Large Databases (VLDB) are now commonly moved to Azure.Improve 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 This blog post might be outdated by now.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 This blog post might be outdated by now.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/368073
