PUBLIC Document Version: 2021.05 – 2021-03-06 SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud company. All rights reserved. All rights company. affiliate THE BEST RUN 2021 SAP SE or an SAP SE or an SAP SAP 2021 © Content 1 SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud......................................3 1.1 Select Statement.............................................................6 1.2 Functions...................................................................6 1.3 Expressions.................................................................9 1.4 Data Lake API............................................................... 9 SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud 2 PUBLIC Content 1 SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud This guide describes the SQL statements for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. This section describes the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud implementation of Structured Query Language (SQL) that is used in the Data Builder, for example, when creating an SQL view or a graphical view. SAP Data Warehouse Cloud SQL is aligned with the SQL used by SAP HANA Cloud. Note Please note that only the listed statements and functions in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud are supported and that some functions or statements listed in the SAP HANA Cloud SQL Reference Guide are, therefore, not supported. You find a list of supported functions available in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud in the Data Builder either in the Graphical View builder or in the SQL View builder. SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud PUBLIC 3 In the Graphical View builder click on the filter icon of your object: SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud 4 PUBLIC SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud You'll find a list of supported functions in the filter properties: In the SQL View builder, only statements or functions that pop up in the value help are supported: SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud PUBLIC 5 1.1 Select Statement The SELECT statement is used to retrieve information from the database. SAP Data Warehouse Cloud currently only supports and uses the select statement of SAP HANA SQL. If the statement refers to other sections of the SQL Guide, then these are also valid. Please see SELECT Statement (Data Manipulation) in the SAP HANA Cloud SQL Reference Guide for detailed information. 1.2 Functions SAP Data Warehouse Cloud comes with built-in functions provided by SAP HANA Cloud. Please see SQL Functions in the SAP HANA Cloud SQL Reference Guide for detailed information. Note Please note that only the listed statements and functions in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud are supported and that some functions or statements listed in the SAP HANA Cloud SQL Reference Guide are, therefore, not supported. You find a list of supported functions available in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud in the Data Builder either in the Graphical View builder or in the SQL View builder. SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud 6 PUBLIC SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud In the Graphical View builder click on the filter icon of your object: SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud PUBLIC 7 You'll find a list of supported functions in the filter properties: In the SQL View builder, only statements or functions that pop up in the value help are supported: SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud 8 PUBLIC SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud Tip An alternative to using TOP, which is not supported in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is to use limit. So, instead of using: SELECT TOP 3 "SMALL_INT" FROM "ALLDATASV0" ORDER BY "SMALL_INT" DESC You can use: SELECT "SMALL_INT" FROM "ALLDATASV0" ORDER BY "SMALL_INT" DESC limit 3 1.3 Expressions SAP Data Warehouse Cloud comes with expressions provided by SAP HANA Cloud. An expression is a clause that can be evaluated to return values. Please see Expressions in the SAP HANA Cloud SQL Reference Guide for detailed information. Note Only expressions that are displayed in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud are supported and, thus, it's possible that expressions that are listed in the SAP HANA Cloud SQL Reference Guide are not supported in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. 1.4 Data Lake API SAP Data Warehouse Cloud provides two procedures to access SAP HANA Cloud, data lake. The following procedures are available in the schema DWC_GLOBAL: SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud PUBLIC 9 ● "DWC_GLOBAL"."DATA_LAKE_EXECUTE" ( IN STMT NCLOB ) This procedure is used to execute statements in data lake. It's a wrapper procedure around the data lake procedure REMOTE_EXECUTE. This enables you to create or drop tables in data lake, or to load data from files. ● "DWC_GLOBAL"."DATA_LAKE_CREATE_VIRTUAL_TABLE" ( IN VIRTUAL_TABLE_NAME NVARCHAR(256), IN DATA_LAKE_TABLE_NAME NVARCHAR(256), IN TARGET_SCHEMA_SYS BOOLEAN DEFAULT false ). ● This procedure provides the option to create SAP HANA virtual tables in the open SQL schema that refer to objects in data lake. These virtual tables are used to query data in the data lake. For more information see Data Lake SQL Statements Versus SAP HANA Cloud SQL Statements. The procedure can also be used to access system views of data lake in schema SYS. The optional IN parameter IN_TARGET_SCHEMA_SYS needs to be to true to create a virtual table on a data lake system view. For more information see System Views [Data Lake]. Virtual tables can be dropped directly using DROP TABLE <virtual_table_name> syntax. For more information see Query Data Lake Data. Example Creating a table in data lake: CALL "DWC_GLOBAL"."DATA_LAKE_EXECUTE"('CREATE TABLE TABLE1 ( MY_ID INTEGER ) '); Creating a virtual table in open SQL schema: CALL "DWC_GLOBAL"."DATA_LAKE_CREATE_VIRTUAL_TABLE" ( VIRTUAL_TABLE_NAME => 'TABLE1_VT', DATA_LAKE_TABLE_NAME => 'TABLE1' ) ; Inserting a record in the table: INSERT INTO table1_vt VALUES (2); Selecting data from the virtual table: SELECT * FROM table1_vt; Dropping the virtual table: DROP TABLE table1_vt; Dropping the table in data lake: CALL "DWC_GLOBAL"."DATA_LAKE_EXECUTE"('DROP TABLE TABLE1'); SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud 10 PUBLIC SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud Accessing the system views via the virtual table: CALL "DWC_GLOBAL"."DATA_LAKE_CREATE_VIRTUAL_TABLE" ( VIRTUAL_TABLE_NAME => 'SYSTAB', DATA_LAKE_TABLE_NAME => 'SYSTAB', TARGET_SCHEMA_SYS => true ) ; SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud SQL Reference for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud PUBLIC 11 Important Disclaimers and Legal Information Hyperlinks Some links are classified by an icon and/or a mouseover text. 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