Running SAP Applications on the Microsoft Platform
This blog provides information about running SAP Applications on the Microsoft Platform. The blog is written by people who are working with SAP on the Microsoft Platform for decades.
Azure Extended monitoring for SAP
As mentioned in the former blog, we are collecting some feedback from customers and different other...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 06/24/2014
SAP GUI connection closed when connecting to SAP system in Azure
Following the successful release of SAP on Azure we have received feedback from customers and our...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 06/24/2014
SAP Notes around Azure released
Yesterday SAP released SAP Notes around Azure as IaaS platform for SAP software. With the release of...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 05/28/2014
Azure as platform supported by SAP soon
Yesterday Microsoft and SAP announced, besides other areas of cooperation, the fact that the...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 05/20/2014
SQL Server 2012 Column Store Deployment Accelerates BW Queries and Improves Storage Efficiency
Summary of Benefits SAP fully support and integrate the SQL Server 2012 Column Store feature into...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 05/07/2014
SAP on SQL General Update for Customers & Partners April 2014
SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the SAP on SQL Server...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 04/08/2014
SAP OS/DB Migration to SQL Server–FAQ v5.2 April 2014
The FAQ document attached to this blog is the cumulative knowledge gained from hundreds of customers...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 04/06/2014
Windows Server 2012 R2 is Generally Available for NetWeaver Applications April 2014
Summary Windows Server 2012 R2 adds new features for Virtualization, Performance and Security and is...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 04/03/2014
SQL Server Column-Store with SAP BW Aggregates
This blog has been re-published at...
Author: Martin Merdes Date: 03/13/2014
Increasing BW cube compression performance
This blog has been re-published at...
Author: Martin Merdes Date: 03/13/2014
New functionality in SQL Server 2014 – Part 5 – Backup/Restore Enhancements
Another area where new functionality was added or improved is the area of backup and restore. There...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 02/15/2014
New functionality in SQL Server 2014 – Part4 - In-Memory OLTP
Besides Column Store Index, another large investment and focus for SQL Server 2014 is a feature...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 02/09/2014
Database Volume is compressed nicely – but now we want to shrink the data files
Quite a few customers have implemented SQL Server Database compression on very large SAP databases...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 01/17/2014
New functionality in SQL Server 2014 – Part 3 – Low Priority Wait
In order to explain what the ‘Low Priority Wait’ feature does, let’s first go into...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 01/17/2014
New functionality in SQL Server 2014 – Part 2 – New Cardinality Estimation
Introduction One area where a lot of development work went into SQL Server 2014 is the area of query...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 01/16/2014
New functionality in SQL Server 2014 – Part 1- Modifiable Column Store Index
As you dear reader realized, there was not that much activity on our blog over the last few months....
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 01/16/2014
SAPInst May Run Slowly on Windows 2012 or Windows 2012 R2
Almost all SAP products are now supported on Windows 2012 and SAP are in the process of certifying...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 11/26/2013
FAQs CHECKDB in SAP SQL Server Databases…Again
- What is CHECKDB?2. What is the reason for yet another post about CHECKDBs on SAP SQL Server...
Author: Mark Weber - Premier Field Engineering SQL and SAP Date: 10/30/2013
Corruption Handling in SAP Databases
What is database corruption? Why should you be concerned about corruption in a database? What should...
Author: Mark Weber - Premier Field Engineering SQL and SAP Date: 10/30/2013
Auditing – audit all except the SAPService
As the SAP database is one of most important assets you have, it makes sense to monitor any access...
Author: Clas Hortien Date: 09/26/2013
New Microsoft BI-SAP Integration whitepaper released
One of the areas we worked hard in the 2nd quarter of 2013 was to collect and document methods of...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 08/31/2013
SAP Private and Public Cloud Infrastructure -> Survey and Customer samples
Hello, this is an experiment which I didn't try yet via this blog. So let's see if/how it works....
Author: HermannDaeubler Date: 08/07/2013
9. Microsoft Private Cloud Solution for SAP: Landscape Design
Microsoft Private Cloud for SAP is built on fixed Virtual Machine and physical server "building...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 06/29/2013
6. Microsoft Private Cloud Solution for SAP: Configuration of Cluster Shared Volumes, VHDX, Disks & LUNs
Microsoft Private Cloud for SAP requires specific configuration of Cluster Shared Volumes, Virtual...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 06/29/2013
1. Microsoft Private Cloud Solution for SAP: Hardware, Network & SAN
Microsoft Private Cloud for SAP requires specific Hardware, Software, Network and Storage...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 06/29/2013
How to Deploy SAP on Microsoft Private Cloud with Hyper-V 3.0
Windows Server 2012 includes powerful virtualization technologies that enable customers to improve...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 06/29/2013
SAP Hyper-V benchmark Released
We usually don’t use this site to promote every benchmark which we conduct and finish with one...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 06/27/2013
Infrastructure Recommendations for SAP on SQL Server: “in-memory” Performance
In recent years the capabilities of Intel and AMD commodity servers have grown exponentially....
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 06/10/2013
SAP OS/DB Migration to SQL Server–FAQ v5.0 May 2013
The FAQ document attached to this blog is the cumulative knowledge gained from hundreds of customers...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 05/30/2013
SAP High Availability in virtualized Environments running on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Part 1: Overview
This is the first publication starting a series of blogs about High Availability of SAP NetWeaver in...
Author: HermannDaeubler Date: 05/13/2013
Analyzing JDBC connection issues
Some customers do have connection issues between their SAP NetWeaver Java application server and SQL...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 05/10/2013
FAQs Around Kerberos and SQL Server
Recommended Audience: Developers, DB Administrators and System AdministratorsEstimated Depth Level:...
Author: Mark Weber - Premier Field Engineering SQL and SAP Date: 05/03/2013
SAP Support for SQL Server 2012 - Update
SAP supports SQL Server 2012 for most SAP NetWeaver based products for quite a while – read my...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 05/03/2013
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 12 – Performance Aspects and Performance Monitoring II
[Edit] You can find the summary of the complete series here. Moving to synchronous availability mode...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 04/24/2013
Pilot program for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 connector for SAP LVM
SAP started the Ramp-Up program for SAP Landscape Virtualization Management 2.0. See...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 04/22/2013
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 11 – Performance Aspects and Performance Monitoring I
[Edit] You can find the summary of the complete series here. In this part of the series we want to...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 04/21/2013
Windows Server 2012 Generally Available for SAP NetWeaver – April 2013
Microsoft and SAP have been testing SAP products running on Windows Server 2012 since this new...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 04/17/2013
Optimizing BW Query Performance
This blog has been re-published at...
Author: Martin Merdes Date: 03/19/2013
Deadlock Analysis (Basic)
Today I want to start a small blog series for the deadlock analysis with SQL Server. In the first...
Author: Clas Hortien Date: 01/31/2013
AlwaysOn Part 10: Switching Scheduled tasks automatically
As we talked about leveraging Log-Shipping together with AlwaysOn in Part #10, it became apparent...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 01/25/2013
AlwaysOn Part 9: AlwaysOn and Logshipping
[Edit] You can find the summary of the complete series here. In this part we want to talk about some...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 01/24/2013
SQL Server 2012: Installing SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SR1
This blog describes how you can install SAP Solution Manager 7.1 on SQL 2012 or perform a system...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 01/17/2013
SAP Software Provisioning Manager (70SWPM) for 7.0x
SAP has released a new version of the SAP Software Provisioning Manager (SWPM) which is called...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 01/15/2013
SAP on SQL General Update for Customers & Partners January 2013
SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the SAP on SQL Server...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 12/17/2012
SQL Server Column-Store: Updated SAP BW code
This blog has been re-published at...
Author: Martin Merdes Date: 12/17/2012
Effect of Windows Power Mode on SAP Netweaver Applications
Lately we had a customer changing the hardware in parts of their SAP application layer for their SAP...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 12/16/2012