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The cross database container access is managed in Global.ini file in Configuration under System Administration.To access global.ini file you need to navigate to Administration tab in HANA Studio → Configuration and there you can find Global.ini file.

Preprocessor server provides text data analysis and search capabilities in HANA system. Preprocessor server is used by Index search to analyze the text data and to perform any search on the text data. This server is used to extract the information based on text search capabilities in HANA system.

In SAP HANA system architecture, Name server is used to maintain topology of SAP HANA system. It details complete information about system landscape- all hosts in distributed environment, active components and services running on each component in a distributed system environment.Topology details of SAP HANA system is maintained.Name server holds the detail of each component and services running on each host and hence reduces the re-indexing time.

In SAP HANA system architecture, Name server is used to maintain topology of SAP HANA system. It details complete information about system landscape- all hosts in distributed environment, active components and services running on each component in a distributed system environment.You can check service start time, memory used, CPU used, Process Id, port number and other details for each service under each component in your environment.When you navigate to System Administration → Landscape tab of your HANA system, all the information provided there- Services, Hosts, Redistribution and System Replication information is relevant to landscape information.You can check the status of ... Read More

It consists of various components as mentioned above for processing of SQL statements from application users hosted on the top of HANA system.User requests via user interface/web browsers are sent to Web server hosting application which is communicated to SQL/MDX Processor in form of SQL queries. These are further segregated to different data engines in Index server according to query types.Session and Transaction Manager authorize SQL transactions and keep track of all the transactions either completed or running in the system.

In SAP HANA system, Session and Transaction Manager is responsible to keep track of all the executed transactions in HANA database. It includes both running transactions and closed transaction. When a transaction in HANA system is failed due to any reason, Transaction Manager informs corresponding engine to handle the error.Session Manager is responsible to manage open and closed sessions and to authorize all the transactions executed in HANA db.

SQL/MDX processor in HANA system processes all SQL and MDX statements executed in HANA system. SQL statements are generated for all the tables, schemas and MDX statements are raised for OLAP data processing. SQL stands for Structured Query Language and is Relational database language to manage two dimensional objects in HANA db.MDX stands for Multi Dimension Expression and is an OLAP language for processing MDX statements for multidimensional models.SQL/MDX Processor directs all the statement to relevant engines for processing and Engine optimization. It is used for authorization management in executing queries and Error handling while processing SQL/MDX statements.Following functions are ... Read More

Each HANA system contains multiple serves inside, which are responsible to perform different functions. Index Server is heart of SAP HANA system which contains SQL/MDX processor for handling SQL statements. Key component includes −Index ServerPreprocessorName ServerStatistics ServerHANA XS EngineSAP Host AgentSAP Solution Manager Diagnostic AgentSAP HANA Studio + RepositorySAP HANA Software Update Manager SUM

You can use following SQL statement for this −CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE ExampleCREATE VIRTUAL TABLE ABC.test_VT AT “ORCL_11G_WIN”.”NULL”.”OUTLN”.”Dept”;In this SQL statement, ABC.test_VT is Virtual table name“ORCL_11G_WIN”.”NULL”.”OUTLN”.”Dept”;- Remote location for creating Virtual table

When a remote source is added, you can see all the existing tables under that data source in HANA Studio. Next is to create virtual table mapping to data in the remote data sources in SAP HANA Studio. This can be done using GUI option.To add a table as a virtual table, you need to navigate to remote data source → Schema name → Table name → Right-click and Add as Virtual TableBelow shows how you can add a table as a Virtual Table using HANA Studio.