Hi,
I am using HANA as a side-car scenario with reports running in SAP ECC being accelerated by querying replicated tables in SAP HANA instead. This works well, however I don't have a good mechanism to validate before running a report whether the underlying data has already been replicated to HANA or is still queued up.
Often users would want to run the reports soon after large data changes have been made in the source tables. It is unknown, based on the overall workload, how long it might take for the most recently written records to get replicated to the corresponding HANA table.
What is a good practice approach to handle this. I have seen some separate threads on doing record counts between HANA and ECC. I think that is not a good idea at all. Firstly, for large tables, the time overhead of doing the record count is very large. In the time it takes for me to query the record count in ECC, the HANA report could have run 10 times over. But more importantly, for very large source tables, I may have opted to only replicate more recent data, leaving old historical data from ECC un-replicated to HANA.
I know this is not a new problem. SAP must have already addressed it a number of ways for their own delivered application accelerators. The COPA accelerator for instance must be doing something along these lines. Possibly querying most recent records in ECC and comparing them to the most recent records in HANA for the same tables might be a way to go.
Does anyone else have insights into how to best approach this? Does SLT expose a mechanism to check whether replication is completed for any given table?
thanks,
Nitin Goel