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.
Confusion around Initial Values marker in SAP Table Definition
Lately we had some interesting discussions between our SAP Basis Team and some of our SAP...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 12/11/2012
SQL Server Column-Store available for all major SAP BW releases
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Author: Martin Merdes Date: 10/29/2012
SAP NetWeaver and Hyper-Threading on Windows Servers : to be or not to be
Update Tue 18 Dec 2012 Little correction regarding NUMA setting in WS2012 Hyper-V manager in thetext...
Author: HermannDaeubler Date: 10/29/2012
SAP starts Windows Server 2012 First Customer Shipment program
SAP Windows Server 2012 First Customer Shipment program we would like to point out that SAP started...
Author: HermannDaeubler Date: 10/22/2012
Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver – step by step up to the cloud – Part V : simple online SAP System copy
Intro In my last blog I described how a simple "offline copy" of a SAP System could be accomplished...
Author: HermannDaeubler Date: 10/22/2012
SAP Software Provisioning Manager (SWPM)
SAP has released a new component of the SL Toolset which replaces the installation tools for SAP...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 10/10/2012
SAP Tools for MS SQL Server now part of SWPM
The SAP Tools for MS SQL Server (STM) used to be a separate download from the msplatforms space on...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 08/24/2012
How Update Statistics really works in SAP BW
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Author: Martin Merdes Date: 08/20/2012
SAP BW improvements in new Support Package
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Author: Martin Merdes Date: 08/17/2012
SQL Server 2012: Installing SAP systems based on SAP NetWeaver 7.31
This blog describes how you can install SAP Systems based on SAP NetWeaver 7.31 on SQL Server...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 08/09/2012
SQL Server 2012: Installing SAP systems based on SAP NetWeaver 7.30
This blog describes how you can install SAP Systems based on SAP NetWeaver 7.30 on SQL Server...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 08/09/2012
Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver – step by step up to the cloud – Part IV : simple offline copy of a central system
Intro in the first three blogs of the series the following topics were discussed :1. SCOM...
Author: HermannDaeubler Date: 08/04/2012
How to enable SAP "enhanced monitoring" via Powershell
Update Sep 27 2012 bug fix in PS script. An issue showed up using the script on a Windows 2012...
Author: HermannDaeubler Date: 07/31/2012
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 8 – Failover Mechanism with SAP Netweaver
[Edit] You can find the summary of the complete series here. In part 8 of our series we want to look...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 07/10/2012
SAP Support for SQL Server 2012
SAP now supports SQL Server 2012 for the following products: SAP Business Suite 2005 SR3 SAP CRM 5.0...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 07/09/2012
SQL Server 2012: Installing SAP systems based on SAP NetWeaver 7.0 including EHP3
This blog describes how you can install the following products on SQL Server 2012 EHP2 for SAP CRM...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 07/09/2012
SQL Server 2012: Installing SAP systems based on SAP NetWeaver 7.0 including EHP1
This blog describes how you can install the following products on SQL Server 2012 SAP CRM 7.0...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 07/09/2012
SQL Server 2012: Installing SAP systems based on SAP NetWeaver 7.0 including EHP2
This blog describes how you can install the following products on SQL Server 2012 EHP1 for SAP CRM...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 07/09/2012
SQL Server 2012: Installing SAP systems based on SAP NetWeaver 7.0
This blog describes how you can install the following products on SQL Server 2012 SAP CRM 5.0...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 07/09/2012
SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Editions
Version 2.0. Please note additional comment in the section: 'How do we change between different...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 06/15/2012
SAP on SQL Server Security Whitepaper Released
In response to requests from customers and partners we have documented a security procedure that has...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 05/27/2012
Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver - step by step up to the cloud - Part III : some thoughts about automated Windows patching
Microsoft Private Cloud for SAP NetWeaver Automated Windows Patching in a Microsoft Private Cloud...
Author: HermannDaeubler Date: 05/15/2012
How to Setup a Dedicated SAP Application Server to DB Server Network
What is a Dedicated SAP Application Server to DB Network & Do I Need One? A dedicated SAP...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 03/30/2012
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 6 – Building an AlwaysOn Availability Group
[Edit] You can find the summary of the complete series here. Version 2.0 Added necessary step to...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 03/29/2012
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 5 – Preparing to build an AlwaysOn Availability Group
[Edit] You can find the summary of the complete series here. Version 3.0 of article: please note...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 03/29/2012
Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver - step by step up to the cloud - Part II : automated installation of a SAP dialog instance
Microsoft Private Cloud for SAP NetWeaver In part I of the blog series :...
Author: HermannDaeubler Date: 03/19/2012
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 4 – SAP configuration in Geo-Cluster configuration
[Edit] You can find the summary of the complete series here. In the fourth part of the series, we...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 02/29/2012
Too Many Virtual Log Files (VLFs) Can Cause Slow Database Recovery
The Transaction Log of a SQL Server database is composed of one or more physical files. For each...
Author: Mark Weber - Premier Field Engineering SQL and SAP Date: 02/22/2012
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 3 – SAP configuration with two Secondary Replicas
[Edit] You can find the summary of the complete series here. After having learned how AlwaysOn...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 02/20/2012
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 2 - Quorum Detection
[Edit] You can find the summary of the complete series here. After giving an overview on AlwaysOn in...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 02/19/2012
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – What is it?
This is the first one of several articles we will provide about the new SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 02/07/2012
Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver - step by step up to the cloud - Part I : SCOM Integration with SAP
Microsoft Private Cloud In the first few parts of this blog series the focus will be on private...
Author: HermannDaeubler Date: 02/03/2012
SAP enhanced monitoring on Hyper-V
Why "enhanced monitoring" ? SAP developed a very comprehensive and sophisticated monitoring...
Author: HermannDaeubler Date: 01/16/2012
Auto Update Statistics Async in SAP NetWeaver
The cost based query optimizer of SQL Server relies on actual index and column statistics. SAP...
Author: Martin Merdes Date: 01/13/2012
Network Settings, Network Teaming, Receive Side Scaling (RSS) & Unbalanced CPU Load
Modern powerful SAP application servers running multiple application servers can generate large...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 01/11/2012
ABAP Select For All Entries - what is happening in SQL Server?
One of the query types one gets confronted with when running SAP Netweaver based applications is a...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 12/28/2011
Oracle to SQL SAP OS/DB Migration FAQ: Update January 2012 : v4.0
OS/DB Migration from UNIX/Oracle or DB2 to Commodity Intel servers running Windows & SQL Server...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 12/22/2011
Faster DBCC CHECKDB Released in SQL 2008 R2 SP1 CU4 : Traceflag 2562 & 2549
CHECKDB Times are Reduced with New CHECKDB Functionality Customers with larger databases are...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 12/21/2011
Performance of index creation
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Author: Martin Merdes Date: 12/11/2011
Microsoft JDBC driver 1.2: sqljdbc driver fails to establish secure connection
If you are using the Microsoft JDBC driver 1.2 for your NetWeaver AS Java, you can get the following...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 12/01/2011
Microsoft’s SAP Deployment and SQL Server 2012
Microsoft’s internal ERP solution is the SAP Suite of products including SAP ECC 6.0, SAP BW...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 11/17/2011
SAP 7.20 Downwards Compatible Kernel is Finally Released
The SAP Downwards Compatible Kernel has finally been released after a long testing program. The 7.20...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 11/12/2011
Upgrade Path to SQL 2008 (R2) and Windows Server 2008 R2
If you want to upgrade your SAP landscape to SQL 2008 (R2) and Windows Server 2008 R2 there are two...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 10/28/2011
How to virtualize SAP GUI using Microsoft App-V
Update 5 Tuesday 06/25/2013 I added a new section at the end of the troubleshooting section in...
Author: HermannDaeubler Date: 10/10/2011
Uneven Windows Processor Groups
The theme discussed in this blog does apply only to hardware which has more than 64 Logical...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 10/08/2011
SAP on SQL : General Update for Customers & Partners October 2011
Below is a collection of recent notes, KB articles and recommendations 1. SAP have defaulted...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 10/01/2011