SAP HANA Basics For Developers: Part 5.1 Database Content

This series is based upon SAP HANA on premise and SAP HANA, express edition - HANA 2.0 with XSA and SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA. Originally recorded in January 2019.

New to HANA in 1.0 SPS 11 was the HANA Deployment Infrastructure or HDI. The goal of HDI is to manage database artifacts from design time objects but in a way that allows multiple copies/versions of the same core objects to be used on the same HANA database at the same time.

HDI introduces the concept of the container as an abstraction of the Schema. The container in turn dynamically generates the schema, a container-specific Database User who owns all objects, and a password for that database user. XS Advanced based services then only need access to the container and never need to know the actual Schema, technical user, or password. All of that information is stored within the container definition.