Note that while modifying or creating the property configuration file, only the property which is different from default value needs to be set. The mistake in property configuration file may result in incorrect action or result of data source.

When you create a new remote data source, SAP HANA Smart data access parse the respective property configuration file. With the use of config file- features, function mappings, data type mappings, and other properties will be linked together with the data source. This decides the communication between the SAP HANA and the data source.You can see part of the content of property_orcl.ini shown below −

You can check the following example to create a new remote source −CREATE REMOTE SOURCE TEST_11g ADAPTER “odbc” CONFIGURATION FILE ‘property_orcl.ini’ CONFIGURATION ‘DSN=oral11g_lnx’ WITH CREDENTIAL TYPE ‘PASSWORD’ USING ‘user=username;password=password′;In above SQL statement, can be one of −  ASEODBC, IQODBC,TDODBC, HIVEODBC,ODBC. Obviously, ASEODBC is for Sybase ASE as data source, IQODBC is for Sybase IQ, TDODBC is for Teradata Database, HIVEODBC is for Hadoop.

In SAP HANA SPS07, following data sources are supported under Smart data access −Sybase ASESAP Sybase IQTeradata 13.0 or higherApache Hadoop 2.3MSSQL 11Oracle 12cWhen you click on the Adapter name while creating a new remote data source, you can see a list of all supported databases.You can also see in the above snapshot that all databases use the ODBC connection for a remote data sources.

The remote system access communication is based on ODBC connection, and ODBC drivers for remote data sources − ASEODBC, IQODBC, and TDODBC. To create a remote data source, Right-click on Remote Sources → New Remote Source

In SAP HANA database, you have different system schema. _SYS_BIC schema in SAP HANA database is used to store column views of all the activated objects in HANA repository.  When an object is created and activated (HANA Modeling views, Stored Procedures), run time objects are saved under _SYS_BIC/Column views in database.These column views are used by front-end tools like BusinessObjects to get the data in a query.

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’;