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The schema name must adhere to the SAP HANA rules for database identifiers.
● Name usage
The Data Definition Language (DDL) rendered by the repository contains the schema name as a delimited
identifier.
5.2 Creating Schemas
A schema defines the container that holds database objects such as tables, views, and stored procedures.
SAP HANA Extended Application Services (SAP HANA XS) enables you to create a database schema as a design-
time file in the repository.
To create a schema definition file in the repository, perform the following steps:
1. Start the SAP HANA studio.
2. Open the SAP HANA Development perspective.
3. Open the Project Explorer view.
4. Create the schema definition file.
Browse to the folder in your project workspace where you want to create the new schema-definition file and
perform the following tasks:
a) Right-click the folder where you want to save the schema-definition file and choose New in the contextsensitive
popup menu.
b) Enter the name of the schema in the File Name box and add the file suffix .hdbschema, for example,
MYSCHEMA.hdbschema.
c) Choose Finish to save the new schema in the repository.
5. Define the schema name.
To edit the schema file, in the Project Explorer view double-click the schema file you created in the previous
step, for example, MYSCHEMA.hdbschema, and add the schema-definition code to the file:
Note: The following code example is provided for illustration purposes only.
schema_name=”MYSCHEMA”
6. Save the schema file.
7. Commit the changes to the repository.
a) Locate and right-click the new schema file in the Project Explorer view.
b) In the context-sensitive pop-up menu, choose Team Commit .
5.3 Tables
In the SAP HANA database, as in other relational databases, a table is a set of data elements that are organized
using columns and rows. A database table has a specified number of columns, defined at the time of table
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