Yes, if you customize a perspective, and you want to reset it, you can select Reset PerspectiveHere you have an option that allows you to perform following options on a Perspective −Customize PerspectiveSave PerspectiveReset PerspectiveClose PerspectiveClose All Perspective

You have different ABAP and Java Perspectives to perform application development and to host applications on HANA system −ABAPABAP Connectivity and IntegrationABAP ProfilingJavaJava BrowsingJava EEJava Type HierarchyJava ScriptThese perspective can be opened by navigating to, navigate to Window option at the top → Perspective → Open Perspective → Other

There are different authentication methods that you can use −Authentication by Operating System UserAuthentication by database userConnect using SSL

You can use an aggregate function to get the same. Common aggregation functions are −Average() − returns the average of the numeric values in a given columnSelect Average (Sales) from table_name where Column1=’ABC’; 

Roles tab is used to define the existing roles in HANA system and you can also create a new role in HANA system to add to user’s profile as per requirement.To add privilege to a new role, you have to click on “+” sign.

Users tab defines the list of existing users in HANA system and you can also create a new user, new restricted user or find a user in HANA system.In above pic, you can use Find User to filter a particular user from existing list.

Security tab is used to define different policies in HANA system:AuditingPassword PolicySAML Identity ProvidersData Volume EncryptionTo define an Audit policy, you have to click “+” sign −

Last folder in SAP HANA Studio system navigation is Security and it has 3 subfolders inside it that defines the system security policy and user management activities −SecurityUserRolesIn Security tab, you can also define Password Policy of HANA system.In Users tab, you can find list of all the existing users in SAP HANA system. You can also create a new User or a restricted user in SAP HANA.In Roles tab, you can see all the existing roles in SAP HANA system.

Following are few limitations of using SAP HANA Smart Data Access −Virtual Tables cannot be used in multi node HANA cluster. However, it is possible to access virtual table from one HANA server to other.In SAP HANA, few of Analytical view does not support virtual tables so SDA is not suitable.

Following are major changes are done in SAP HANA SPS07 for Smart Data Access −In later version SPS07, it supports SAP Oracle Database 12c, SAP Sybase Event Stream Processor (ESP) 5.1 SP04 and MSSQL server 2012 version 11 as data sources.In SPS07, it is possible to perform insert/update/deletion for remote databases with some limitations.In SPS06, it was not possible to use BLOB and CLOB data types with virtual tables. In SPS07, SDA now supports BLOBs and CLOBs as column data type of virtual table.SDA has a new feature which will help to check whether SDA installation is done successfully or ... Read More