SAP HANA Developer Guide - Get a Free Blog

Table 4: Application Building Blocks
Object Description File Extension More Information
Structure
Project An Eclipse project for developing your
application or part of an application.
The .project file can be stored in the SAP
HANA repository.
Package A container in the repository for
development objects.
Modeling Data
Schema A database schema for organizing database
objects.
.project SAP HANA Studio Projects
Packages are
represented by
folders.
[page 39]
Maintaining Repository
Packages [page 42]
.hdbschema Schema [page 75]
Table A database table. .hdbtable Tables [page 76]
SQL View A virtual table based on a SQL query. .hdbview SQL Views [page 80]
Attribute,
Analytic and
Calculation
View
A view created with modeling tools and
designed to model a business use case.
Decision Table A database table used to define business
rules, for example, for validating data.
Analytic
Privilege
A set of rules that restricts users to seeing
only a subset of data in a table or view.
Sequence A set of unique numbers, for example, for
use as primary keys for a specific table.
Procedure A database function for performing
complex and data-intensive business logic
that cannot be performed with standard
SQL.
Web Access
Application
Descriptor
Application
Access File
Application
Privilege
20
A file in a repository package that defines a
root folder of a native SAP HANA
application. All files in that package are
available to be called via URL.
A file that defines permissions for a native
SAP HANA application, that is, permissions
for accessing and running objects in the
package.
A file that defines a privilege related to an
SAP HANA Extended Application Services
P U B L I C
© 2012 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
Created with the
Navigator view.
Setting Up the Analytic
Model [page 92]
Creating Decision Tables
[page 133]
Creating Analytic Privileges
[page 341]
.hdbsequence Sequences [page 78]
.procedure Developing Procedures
[page 158]
.xsapp Creating the Application
Descriptors [page 49]
.xsaccess Enabling Access to SAP
HANA XS Application
Packages [page 57]
.xsprivileges The Application-Privileges
File [page 59]
SAP HANA Developer Guide
SAP HANA as a Development Platform