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Browse to the folder in your project workspace where you want to create the new sequence-definition file and
perform the following tasks:
a) Right-click the folder where you want to save the sequence-definition file and choose New in the contextsensitive
popup menu.
b) Enter the name of the sequence in the File Name box and add the file suffix .hdbsequence, for example,
MYSEQUENCE.hdbsequence.
c) Choose Finish to save the new sequence in the repository.
5. Define the sequence properties.
To edit the sequence file, in the Project Explorer view double-click the sequence file you created in the
previous step, for example, MYSEQUENCE.hdbsequence, and add the sequence code to the file:
schema= "TEST_DUMMY";
start_with= 10;
maxvalue= 30;
nomaxvalue=false;
minvalue= 1;
nominvalue=true;
cycles= false;
reset_by= "SELECT \"Col2\" FROM \"TEST_DUMMY\".
\"com.sap.test.tables::MY_TABLE\" WHERE \"Col2\"='12'";
depends_on_table= "com.sap.test.tables::MY_TABLE";
6. Save the sequence file.
7. Commit the changes to the repository.
a) Locate and right-click the new sequence file in the Project Explorer view.
b) In the context-sensitive pop-up menu, choose Team Commit .
5.7 SQL Views
In SQL, a view is a virtual table based on the dynamic results returned in response to an SQL statement. Every
time a user queries an SQL view, the database uses the view's SQL statement to recreate the data specified in the
SQL view. The data displayed in an SQL view can be extracted from one or more database tables.
An SQL view contains rows and columns, just like a real database table; the fields in an SQL view are fields from
one or more real tables in the database. You can add SQL functions, for example, WHERE or JOIN statements, to a
view and present the resulting data as if it were coming from one, single table.
SAP HANA Extended Application Services (SAP HANA XS) enables you to create a database view as a design-time
file in the repository. Repository files can be read by applications that you develop. In addition, all repository files
including your view definition can be transported to other SAP HANA systems, for example, in a delivery unit.
If your application refers to the design-time version of a view from the repository rather than the runtime version
in the catalog, for example, by using the explicit path to the repository file (with suffix), any changes to the
repository version of the file are visible as soon as they are committed to the repository. There is no need to wait
for the repository to activate a runtime version of the view.
To define a transportable view using the design-time view specifications, use the configuration schema illustrated
in the following example:
string schema;
string query;
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