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2026 13

  1. Securing SAP ABAP-to-HANA Authentication with Azure Key Vault Managed HSM (Hardware Security Module)
  2. Introducing the ABAP Cloud SDK for Azure: a native, secure path from SAP ABAP Cloud to Azure
  3. SAP on Azure Product Announcements Summary – SAP TechEd 2026
  4. HA-Ready SAP HANA Disaster Recovery: a 2+2 setup across Azure Region with SAPHanaSR-angi
  5. Announcing Public Preview of new Mv4 Medium Memory Virtual Machines
  6. Accelerating cross-region Azure disk copying
  7. Announcing public preview of new Mbv4 Virtual Machines
  8. MANA support for Existing VM SKUs:Why Now Is the Right Time to Update Linux on your SAP on Azure VMs
  9. SAP on Azure Product Announcements Summary – SAP Sapphire 2026
  10. From Observability to Action: Building an AI-Powered AIOps Agent for Customer-Specific Operations
  11. Aligning SAP application servers with the HANA primary zone on Azure (Public Preview) — Part 1
  12. Azure SAP Zone Resource Agent (Public Preview) — Technical Deep Dive (Part 2)
  13. SAP + Microsoft 365: A Unified AI Experience That Works Where You Work

2025 21

  1. M-Series Sets a New Remote Storage on Mbv4 Demo
  2. Designing, Migrating and Managing a 15+1-Node SAP BW Scale-Out Landscape on Microsoft Azure
  3. Azure delivers the first cloud VM with Intel Xeon 6 and CXL memory - now in Private Preview
  4. SAP on Azure Product Announcements Summary – SAP TechEd 2025
  5. Evolving SAP Testing on Azure: What’s New in the SAP Testing Automation Framework
  6. SAP Business Data Cloud Now Available on Microsoft Azure
  7. Announcing Public Preview for Business Process Solutions
  8. New Mbv3 Size, Standard_M416bs_v3, General Availability
  9. Backup SAP Oracle Databases Using Azure VM Backup Snapshots
  10. Moving Linux and Windows from SCSI to NVMe with one easy command
  11. Azure Files NFS Encryption In Transit for SAP on Azure Systems
  12. SAP Web Dispatcher on Linux with High Availability Setup on Azure
  13. SAP on Azure Product Announcements Summary – SAP Sapphire 2025
  14. Introducing the SAP Testing Automation Framework: Elevating SAP System Testing on Azure
  15. Join Microsoft at SAP Sapphire 2025
  16. SAP Content Server 7.54 on Windows with FileServer as Document Store
  17. Simplifying Vertex Tax Software Deployment with Oracle Database@Azure
  18. Use Premium SSD v2 with SAP
  19. Using Azure Chaos Studio to Fortify SAP Systems Testing and Resiliency
  20. Configure SAP Standalone Gateway integrated with High Availability ASCS instance
  21. SAP Kernel Upgrade Automation Using Azure Center for SAP Solutions

2024 26

  1. SAP System Refresh and Cloning operations on Azure NetApp Files with SnapCenter
  2. Migrating over 200 TB SAP Oracle Database to Azure with Lemongrass Cloud Platform Migrate
  3. SAP HANA data protection on Azure NetApp Files with SnapCenter
  4. Scalability in the Cloud: Migrating over 200 TB SAP Oracle Database to Azure
  5. Using Azure NetApp Files (ANF) for data- and logfiles for Microsoft SQL Server in an SAP environment
  6. Restoring an MS SQL 2022 DB from a ANF SnapShot
  7. Simplifying Securing SAP-Power Platform Connectivity with SAP OData Connector and Single Sign-on
  8. SAP on Azure Product Announcements Summary – SAP TechEd 2024
  9. Announcing GA of new Mbv3 Virtual Machines
  10. M-Series announcements – GA of Mv3 High Memory and details on Mv3 Very High Memory virtual machines
  11. SAP & Teams Integration with Copilot Studio and Generative AI
  12. Announcing public preview of new Mbv3 Virtual Machines
  13. Enhancing Copilot Studio Extensions for SAP by using Adaptive Cards and Principal Propagation
  14. Converting Azure Virtual Machines running Windows from SCSI to NVMe
  15. Streamlining SAP Processes with Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio, and Power Platform
  16. How to deploy SAP IQ-NLS Solution using Azure Premium Files on Azure.
  17. Immutable Backup for SAP databases using Azure NetApp Files and BlueXP
  18. Converting Virtual Machines running Linux from SCSI to NVMe
  19. SAP on Azure Product Announcements Summary – SAP Sapphire 2024
  20. Microsoft at SAP Sapphire 2024
  21. Disaster Recovery for SAP NetWeaver HA deployment with Azure Shared Disk on Windows using ASR
  22. How to use Microsoft Universal Print with SAP
  23. Data Protection for SAP Solutions
  24. How to deploy SAP Print Server Highly Available Architecture on Azure
  25. How to deploy Loftware in HA setup with SAP (ECC) in Azure
  26. How to use ACSS Inventory Checks to review your SAP workload

2023 35

  1. Introducing New Powerful Infrastructure for running SAP HANA on Azure
  2. SAP on Azure General Update October 2023
  3. SAP on Azure Product Announcements Summary – SAP TechEd 2023
  4. Configuring Azure NetApp Files (ANF) Application Volume Group (AVG) for zonal SAP HANA deployment
  5. SAP Netweaver 7.5 with MaxDB 7.9 on Azure using Azure NetApp Files (ANF)
  6. Microsoft Defender Endpoint (MDE) for SAP Applications on Windows Server
  7. Building GPT-4 powered bots for SAP enterprise data on Microsoft Teams: A Low-Code Approach
  8. SAP on Azure NetApp Files Sizing Best Practices
  9. Announcing public preview of new Mv3 Medium Memory Virtual Machines
  10. SAP CDC on Azure
  11. Automated registration of SAP systems at scale with Azure Centre for SAP solutions
  12. Manual Recovery Guide for SAP DB2 on Azure VMs from Azure NetApp Files snapshot with AzAcSnap
  13. SAP Start/Stop Automation using Azure Center for SAP Solutions
  14. SQL Server 2022 is released for SAP NetWeaver
  15. How to easily migrate an existing SAP system VMs to Flexible Virtual Machine Scale Set
  16. Installation of an SAP NetWeaver ERP based on WSFC with clustered ASCS and SAP MaxDB
  17. Setup of SAP Content Server 7.54 with MaxDB in a WSFC environment based on Azure shared disks.
  18. SAP on Azure Product Announcements Summary – SAP Sapphire 2023
  19. Announcing General Availability for Microsoft Azure Center for SAP Solutions
  20. Announcing General Availability for Microsoft Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions
  21. SAP CDC Connector and SLT - Part 4 - Advanced Settings
  22. SAP CDC Connector and SLT - Part 3 - Let's get that data!
  23. DR scenario for SAP Windows application servers with the focus on ASCS/ERS using Azure Files SMB
  24. SAP CDC Connector and SLT - Part 2 - Initial Configuration
  25. Azure Standard Load Balancer with SAP BW HANA Scale-out deployment
  26. SAP CDC Connector and SLT - Part 1 - Overview and architecture
  27. Secure Communication to Fetch SAP NetWeaver SAP Control and SAP RFC Metric Data in AMS
  28. Using Azure NetApp Files AVG for SAP HANA to deploy HANA with multiple partitions (MP)
  29. Announcement: SAP on Azure Oracle Performance Efficiency Scripts
  30. SAP ASE 16.0 on Azure NetApp Files for SAP Workloads on SLES15
  31. SAP NetWeaver HA deployment with File Share running on Windows failover to DR Region using ASR
  32. DB2 Installation Guide on ANF
  33. ANF Backup for SAP Solutions
  34. SAP Applications and Microsoft Defender for Linux
  35. SAP Oracle 19c System Refresh Guide on Azure VMs using Azure NetApp Files Snapshots with AzAcSnap

2022 38

  1. Optimize HANA deployments with Azure NetApp Files application volume group for SAP HANA
  2. Well-Architected for SAP workloads - Continuous Improvement through Operational Excellence
  3. SAP on Oracle ASM on Azure in 5 Easy Steps
  4. Integrating SAP with Microsoft Office
  5. SAP on the Microsoft Cloud Product Announcements - TechEd November 2022
  6. Protecting HANA databases configured with HSR on Azure NetApp Files with AzAcSnap
  7. SAP and Microsoft help organizations improve productivity through collaborative experiences
  8. Microsoft releases SAP HANA Standard Sizing certified VM with close to 24TB memory
  9. Microsoft Azure Center for SAP solutions Product Update October 2022
  10. Extracting SAP data using the CDC connector
  11. SAP on Azure General Update August 2022
  12. Integration of Signavio with SAP Solution Manager hosted on Azure using Azure Application Gateway.
  13. Using Azure online disk expansion for SAP
  14. SAP on Azure high availability – change from SPN to MSI for Pacemaker clusters using Azure fencing
  15. Optimizing Network Throughput on Azure M-series VMs
  16. SAP ASCS/ERS HA Cluster with SBD device (using iSCSI target server) failover to DR region using ASR
  17. IBM Db2 monitoring in Azure Monitoring for SAP Solutions
  18. Microsoft SQL Server monitoring in Azure Monitoring for SAP Solutions
  19. Visualizing SAP NetWeaver Metric Data in AMS through Azure Workbook
  20. Configuring NetWeaver Provider in AMS (Version 2)
  21. SAP NetWeaver SOAP and RFC deep dive in Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
  22. Maximizing Observability for SAP on Azure with Azure Monitor for SAP solution
  23. Announcing Public Preview for Microsoft Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
  24. Announcing Public Preview for Microsoft Azure Center for SAP Solutions
  25. Is your SAP environment optimized? Assessments for SAP on Azure can help
  26. Manual Recovery Guide for SAP HANA on Azure VMs from Azure NetApp Files snapshot with AzAcSnap
  27. Implementing SAP HANA scale-up high availability on Disaster Region
  28. SAP on Azure Product Announcements Summary – SAP Sapphire 2022
  29. SAPRouter configuration with Azure Firewall
  30. Accelerate SAP migrations to Microsoft Cloud with Lemongrass
  31. Manual Recovery Guide for SAP HANA on Azure Large Instance from storage snapshot with AzAcSnap
  32. Manual Recovery Guide for SAP Oracle 19c on Azure VMs from Azure NetApp Files snapshot with AzAcSnap
  33. Use SAP Virtual Host Names with Linux in Azure
  34. Windows Server 2022 is Generally Available for SAP NetWeaver
  35. Archiving Azure Resource Groups to cost-efficient BLOB Storage
  36. How to Migrate a Highly Available SAP System in Azure from Availability Set to Availability Zone
  37. Implementing Azure NetApp Files with Kerberos
  38. SAP Application Server switch in Active/Passive Deployment across Availability Zones

2021 44

  1. How does Azure Development copy SAP systems?
  2. Azure BLOB as SAP ILM Store
  3. SAP on Azure General Update – November 2021
  4. SAP on Azure Product Announcements Summary – SAP TechEd 2021
  5. How to switch SBD Devices (iSCSI Target VMs) for SLES Pacemaker Cluster in Azure
  6. SLES15SP1 Pacemaker Cluster on HLI for SAP HANA 2.0SP5 Patch 52 Based on Fibre Channel
  7. SAP ASCS for Windows Now Fully Supported on Azure Files SMB
  8. Announcing the private preview of the Configuration and SAP Installation for the SAP Deployment Auto
  9. SAP on Azure Network connectivity and Security
  10. Azure Customers - ABAP dump DBSQL_SQL_ERROR with error message TCP RESET 10054 on Azure ILB
  11. Designing SAP Global transport directory using ANF in Azure
  12. Application Security groups in SAP on Azure deployments
  13. Move Files Share of SAP S/4 HANA and SAP NetWeaver on Windows from SOFS Cluster to Azure Files SMB
  14. New features in AMS: Alerts, 'data-size' for SAP HANA, HA cluster (RHEL) and new NetWeaver telemetry
  15. Cross-region data replication using rsync
  16. Deploy SAP IQ NLS HA Solution using Azure shared disk on Windows Server
  17. Join us at SapphireNOW for the latest updates on running SAP solutions on Microsoft Azure
  18. Why customers prefer Microsoft Azure to unlock insights from their SAP data
  19. SAP on Azure General Update – May 2021
  20. Getting started with SAP on Azure
  21. Accelerate and optimize your SAP on Azure journey with Protera FlexBridge®
  22. General Availability of M-series Msv2/Mdsv2 Medium Memory VMs for memory-optimized workloads
  23. New Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions HA Cluster features
  24. Public Preview of SAP NetWeaver, North Europe, OS, and new insights in Cluster Monitoring
  25. SAP NetWeaver monitoring- Azure Monitoring for SAP Solutions
  26. Collective expertise to help you move your SAP landscape to the cloud
  27. Learn about Microsoft & SAP solutions focused on Platform & Admin
  28. Learn about Microsoft & SAP solutions for Financials, Governance and Cybersecurity
  29. Architectural Decisions to maximize ANF investment in HANA N+M Scale-Out Architecture - Part 3
  30. Use SAP Virtual Host Names with Windows on Microsoft Azure
  31. Announcing public preview of new M-series VMs for memory-optimized workloads
  32. SAP on Azure General Update – February 2021
  33. How to manage SAP IQ License in HA Scenario
  34. SAP ASCS HA Cluster (in Linux OS) failover to DR region using Azure Site Recovery
  35. Optimize your Azure Costs by Automating SAP System Start – Stop
  36. Architectural Decisions to maximize ANF investment in HANA N+M Scale-Out Architecture - Part 2
  37. SAP Migration to Azure - Performance Optimization Guidance
  38. Microsoft / SAP / Intel Workshop: Better Together! Register link included!
  39. Migrating SAP on Oracle Workloads to Azure
  40. Which service or product is perfect for my requirements?
  41. HANA Data File Partitioning - Installation
  42. Architectural Decisions to maximize ANF investment in HANA N+M Scale-Out Architecture - Part 1
  43. Deploy SAP AnyDB (Oracle 19c) with Azure NetApp Files
  44. Deploy SAP ASCS/ERS with Azure Files NFS v4.1 shares

2020 21

  1. Join us at SAP TechEd for the latest updates on running SAP solutions with Microsoft Azure
  2. Announcing Preview for SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework
  3. SAP S/4HANA Fully activated appliance installation in Azure
  4. How to choose correct Availability Zones for SAP Application cross-zone deployment
  5. SAP on Azure General Update – November 2020
  6. SAP Application Server AutoScaling in Azure
  7. Collecting and displaying niping network latency measurements with Azure Monitor
  8. Memory errors during data extraction from SAP using Azure Data Factory SAP Table connector
  9. SAP Rolling Kernel Switch (RKS) on Azure
  10. How to migrate your SAP landscape to Azure
  11. Deploy SAP IQ-NLS HA Solution using Azure NetApp Files on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
  12. Azure Shared Disk Support for Clustered SAP ASCS/SCS on Windows Cluster
  13. Achieve High-Availability for SAP HANA Scale-Out on SLES with HSR and automatic failover
  14. Using Azure Lighthouse and Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions to view telemetry across Multiple Tenants
  15. SAP on Azure General Update – July 2020
  16. SQL Server 2019 is released for SAP NetWeaver
  17. Cumulative Update 1 for the Whitepaper SAP on SQL Server
  18. Analytics and Integration for SAP Global Instance running on-premises with ADF
  19. Practical Tips for Microsoft Snapshot Tools for SAP HANA Large Instances
  20. AZ-120: Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads – Let’s start preparing.
  21. SAP on Azure General Update – January 2020

2019 311

  1. SAP HANA Fast-Restart
  2. Azure Logic Apps Integration with SAP
  3. SAP Hana Performance Enhancement in SPS04 Patch 45
  4. Migrate SLES S/4HANA ASCS instance from NFS to ANF in Azure
  5. Enable cross-cloud experiences between Microsoft Azure and SAP Cloud Platform with seamless SSO
  6. An end to end S4HANA deployment with High Availability in Azure
  7. SAP on Azure General Update July 2019
  8. Hot News: CRC32 Error During Backups on Hana & High Page Out Fix for Windows
  9. OS/DB Migration FAQ: July 2019 v7.0
  10. Hardening SUSE image for SAP in Azure
  11. SAP S/4HANA Silent Installation
  12. Leveraging Open Service Broker to connect SAP Cloud Platform with Azure Services
  13. Optimize your SAP on Azure cost
  14. SAP NetWeaver Licensing Mechanism in Microsoft Azure Cloud - Part 1
  15. Windows 2019 is now Generally Available for SAP
  16. S/4H Installation in Azure - SETUP AND CONFIG IN ONE DAY
  17. SAP on Azure High Availability Systems with Heterogenous Windows and Linux Clustering and SAP HANA
  18. SAP on Azure General Update March 2019
  19. SAPS ratings on Azure VMs – where to look and where you can get confused
  20. Moving SAP on SQL Server and Windows into Azure – what SQL Server and Windows release should I use
  21. Orica’s S/4HANA Foundational Architecture Design on Azure
  22. SAP Support for SQL Server 2017
  23. SAP on SQL Server on Azure – How to Bypass Proxy Server During Backup to URL
  24. Installation Procedure for Sybase 16. 3 Patch Level 3 Always-on + DR on Suse 12. 3 – Recent Customer Proof of Concept
  25. SAP on Azure: General Update – June 2018
  26. Flat Cube became default in SAP BW
  27. Columnstore became default in SAP BW
  28. Very Large Database Migration to Azure – Recommendations & Guidance to Partners
  29. Setting Up Hana System Replication on Azure Hana Large Instances
  30. SAP on SQL Server: General Update – January 2018
  31. SAP on Azure: General Update – January 2018
  32. Improve SAP BW Performance by Applying the Flat Cube
  33. Customer Experience with Columnstore on ERP
  34. SAP NetWeaver Installation on HANA database
  35. File Server with SOFS and S2D as an Alternative to Cluster Shared Disk for Clustering of an SAP (A)SCS Instance in Azure is Generally Available
  36. Distributed Availability Groups extended
  37. Few interesting findings on HANA with MDC
  38. New SQL Server 2016 functionality helps SAP supportability
  39. Protecting SAP Solutions with Azure Site Recovery
  40. Protecting SAP Solutions with Azure Site Recovery (2014)
  41. High Available ASCS for Windows on File Share – Shared Disk No Longer Required
  42. Migrating to SAP HANA on Azure
  43. Customer experience with SAP BW FEMS-Pushdown
  44. End to End Setup for SAP HANA Large Instances
  45. Parallel Processing in SAP
  46. Performance evolution of SAP BW on SQL Server
  47. SAP OS/DB Migration to SQL Server–FAQ v6.2 April 2017
  48. SAP on Azure: General Update for Customers & Partners April 2017
  49. SAP on Azure: General Update for Customers & Partners April 2017
  50. Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) acceleration for SQL 2016 in Windows Azure
  51. Using Columnstore on ERP tables
  52. More Questions From Customers About SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption – TDE + Azure Key Vault
  53. SAP on SQL: General Update for Customers & Partners March 2017
  54. Large Australian Energy Company Modernizes SAP Applications & Moves to Azure Public Cloud
  55. SAP Business Objects support of SQL Server 2016 and Azure products
  56. Windows 2016 is now Generally Available for SAP
  57. BW Queries by factors faster using FEMS-pushdown
  58. Recent SAP BW improvements for SQL Server
  59. SAP Now Supports Azure Resource Manager (ARM) for Windows and Linux
  60. How to install or upgrade SAP Systems to SQL Server 2016 *updated*
  61. Top 14 Updates and New Technologies for Deploying SAP on Azure
  62. Improved SAP compression tool MSSCOMPRESS
  63. SAP OS/DB Migration to SQL Server–FAQ v6.1 November 2016
  64. Moving from SAP 2-Tier to 3-Tier configuration and performance seems worse
  65. Simplified and faster SAP BW Process Chains
  66. SQL Server 2016 improvements for SAP (BW)
  67. Lessons From a Recent Large Cloud Migration Project
  68. Where can I find documentation or information for ....?
  69. In a changing market we now offer a broader spectrum of topics
  70. How to slowdown a SQL Server Database Backup
  71. More offers in SAP Cloud Appliance Library for Azure
  72. SQL Server 2016 Distributed Availability Groups for SAP
  73. SAP on SQL: General Update for Customers & Partners June 2016
  74. New Azure PowerShell cmdlets for Azure Enhanced Monitoring
  75. Azure Quickstart Templates for SAP
  76. Protecting SAP Systems Running on VMware with Azure Site Recovery
  77. SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn for SAP
  78. SQL Server has encountered I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds
  79. Whitepaper SAP on SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014
  80. Always On - Synchronize SAP login, jobs and objects
  81. The Azure Monitoring Extension for SAP on Windows – Possible Error Codes and Their Solutions
  82. Improvements of SAP (BW) System Copy
  83. New White Paper on Sizing SAP Solutions on Azure Public Cloud
  84. SAP MaxDB, SAP liveCache and SAP Content Server are certified to run in Microsoft Azure Cloud
  85. SQL Server AlwaysOn - Summary
  86. VMWare Vulnerability can cause Database Inconsistencies
  87. Data distribution and SQL Plans
  88. SAP GUI is supporting Windows 10 as operating system
  89. World Record SAP Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmark for SAP cloud deployments released using Azure IaaS VMs
  90. Foodstuffs North Island Retire Legacy Technology and Lower Costs by Moving Decommissioned SAP Systems to Azure on Demand
  91. Global Advisory Firm Improves SAP BW Performance and Lowers Costs by Moving SAP Landscape to Windows & SQL Server on Azure and Hyper-V
  92. Required SQL Server patch for Columnstore
  93. How to Size SAP Systems Running on Azure VMs
  94. Top 10 Key Considerations for Deploying SAP Applications on Azure
  95. Clustering SAP ASCS Instance using Windows Server Failover Cluster on Microsoft Azure with SIOS DataKeeper and Azure Internal Load Balancer
  96. Max degree of parallelism (MaxDOP)
  97. Azure Premium Storage is available for SAP workloads
  98. SAP OS/DB Migration to SQL Server–FAQ v5.3 April 2015
  99. WORST Practices for Maintaining SQL Server SAP systems (i.e. Things to AVOID)
  100. Best Practices for Maintaining SQL Server SAP Systems
  101. SAP on SQL General Update for Customers & Partners April 2015
  102. Important Information for those Customers still using Windows 2003 – April 2015
  103. Columnstore Optimized Flat Cube in SAP BW
  104. Concepts of SQL Server 2014 Columnstore
  105. SQL Server 2014 Columnstore: Released for SAP BW
  106. Software Logistics on SQL Server 2014
  107. SQL Server 2014 now released by SAP for SAP NetWeaver 7.xx
  108. SAP Support for Microsoft KBA 2964518
  109. Deadlock Analysis (Advanced)
  110. Deadlock Analysis (Examples)
  111. SQL Server Column-Store for SAP BW: Status and Release Planning
  112. SQL Agent Jobs in an AlwaysOn / Mirroring Environment
  113. Protecting SAP Solutions with Azure Site Recovery
  114. Protecting SAP Solutions with Azure Site Recovery
  115. Setup of WSFC with Azure Virtual Machines and SIOS Datakeeper using Azure Powershell
  116. More Azure VMs supported by SAP now
  117. Message misaligned log IOs which required falling back to synchronous IO in SQL Server Error Log
  118. Client Aware Parameter for Multiple Clients has been Defaulted to Enabled
  119. Azure Extended monitoring for SAP
  120. SAP GUI connection closed when connecting to SAP system in Azure
  121. SAP Notes around Azure released
  122. Azure as platform supported by SAP soon
  123. SQL Server 2012 Column Store Deployment Accelerates BW Queries and Improves Storage Efficiency
  124. SAP on SQL General Update for Customers & Partners April 2014
  125. SAP OS/DB Migration to SQL Server–FAQ v5.2 April 2014
  126. Windows Server 2012 R2 is Generally Available for NetWeaver Applications April 2014
  127. SQL Server Column-Store with SAP BW Aggregates
  128. Increasing BW cube compression performance
  129. Multi Site Clusters for SAP on SQL Systems: Recommendations & FAQ
  130. New functionality in SQL Server 2014 – Part 5 – Backup/Restore Enhancements
  131. New functionality in SQL Server 2014 – Part4 - In-Memory OLTP
  132. Database Volume is compressed nicely – but now we want to shrink the data files
  133. New functionality in SQL Server 2014 – Part 3 – Low Priority Wait
  134. New functionality in SQL Server 2014 – Part 2 – New Cardinality Estimation
  135. New functionality in SQL Server 2014 – Part 1- Modifiable Column Store Index
  136. SAPInst May Run Slowly on Windows 2012 or Windows 2012 R2
  137. FAQs CHECKDB in SAP SQL Server Databases…Again
  138. Corruption Handling in SAP Databases
  139. Auditing – audit all except the SAPService
  140. SAP on SQL General Update for Customers & Partners September 2013
  141. Virtualization – Overcommitting memory and how to detect it within the VM
  142. New Microsoft BI-SAP Integration whitepaper released
  143. SAP Private and Public Cloud Infrastructure -> Survey and Customer samples
  144. 9. Microsoft Private Cloud Solution for SAP: Landscape Design
  145. 6. Microsoft Private Cloud Solution for SAP: Configuration of Cluster Shared Volumes, VHDX, Disks & LUNs
  146. 1. Microsoft Private Cloud Solution for SAP: Hardware, Network & SAN
  147. How to Deploy SAP on Microsoft Private Cloud with Hyper-V 3.0
  148. SAP Hyper-V benchmark Released
  149. Infrastructure Recommendations for SAP on SQL Server: “in-memory” Performance
  150. SAP OS/DB Migration to SQL Server–FAQ v5.0 May 2013
  151. SAP High Availability in virtualized Environments running on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Part 1: Overview
  152. Analyzing JDBC connection issues
  153. FAQs Around Kerberos and SQL Server
  154. SAP Support for SQL Server 2012 - Update
  155. SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 12 – Performance Aspects and Performance Monitoring II
  156. Pilot program for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 connector for SAP LVM
  157. SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 11 – Performance Aspects and Performance Monitoring I
  158. Windows Server 2012 Generally Available for SAP NetWeaver – April 2013
  159. Optimizing BW Query Performance
  160. Deadlock Analysis (Basic)
  161. AlwaysOn Part 10: Switching Scheduled tasks automatically
  162. AlwaysOn Part 9: AlwaysOn and Logshipping
  163. SQL Server 2012: Installing SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SR1
  164. SAP Software Provisioning Manager (70SWPM) for 7.0x
  165. Reading from Database Mirroring or AlwaysOn Secondary Replicas in SAP Configurations
  166. SAP on SQL General Update for Customers & Partners January 2013
  167. SQL Server Column-Store: Updated SAP BW code
  168. Effect of Windows Power Mode on SAP Netweaver Applications
  169. Confusion around Initial Values marker in SAP Table Definition
  170. SQL Server Column-Store available for all major SAP BW releases
  171. SAP NetWeaver and Hyper-Threading on Windows Servers : to be or not to be
  172. SAP starts Windows Server 2012 First Customer Shipment program
  173. Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver – step by step up to the cloud – Part V : simple online SAP System copy
  174. SAP Software Provisioning Manager (SWPM)
  175. SAP Tools for MS SQL Server now part of SWPM
  176. How Update Statistics really works in SAP BW
  177. SAP BW improvements in new Support Package
  178. SAP on SQL: General Update for Customers & Partners August 2012
  179. SQL Server 2012: Installing SAP systems based on SAP NetWeaver 7.31
  180. SQL Server 2012: Installing SAP systems based on SAP NetWeaver 7.30
  181. Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver – step by step up to the cloud – Part IV : simple offline copy of a central system
  182. How to enable SAP "enhanced monitoring" via Powershell
  183. SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 8 – Failover Mechanism with SAP Netweaver
  184. SAP Support for SQL Server 2012
  185. SQL Server 2012: Installing SAP systems based on SAP NetWeaver 7.0 including EHP3
  186. SQL Server 2012: Installing SAP systems based on SAP NetWeaver 7.0 including EHP1
  187. SQL Server 2012: Installing SAP systems based on SAP NetWeaver 7.0 including EHP2
  188. SQL Server 2012: Installing SAP systems based on SAP NetWeaver 7.0
  189. SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Editions
  190. SAP on SQL Server Security Whitepaper Released
  191. SQL Server 2012 Column-store support for SAP BW
  192. Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver - step by step up to the cloud - Part III : some thoughts about automated Windows patching
  193. SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 7 – Details behind an AlwaysOn Availability Group
  194. How to Setup a Dedicated SAP Application Server to DB Server Network
  195. SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 6 – Building an AlwaysOn Availability Group
  196. SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 5 – Preparing to build an AlwaysOn Availability Group
  197. SQL 2012 is Released & Running Live at Wei Chuan Foods Taiwan
  198. Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver - step by step up to the cloud - Part II : automated installation of a SAP dialog instance
  199. SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 4 – SAP configuration in Geo-Cluster configuration
  200. Too Many Virtual Log Files (VLFs) Can Cause Slow Database Recovery
  201. SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 3 – SAP configuration with two Secondary Replicas
  202. SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 2 - Quorum Detection
  203. SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – What is it?
  204. Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver - step by step up to the cloud - Part I : SCOM Integration with SAP
  205. SAP enhanced monitoring on Hyper-V
  206. Network Settings, Network Teaming, Receive Side Scaling (RSS) & Unbalanced CPU Load
  207. ABAP Select For All Entries - what is happening in SQL Server?
  208. Oracle to SQL SAP OS/DB Migration FAQ: Update January 2012 : v4.0
  209. Faster DBCC CHECKDB Released in SQL 2008 R2 SP1 CU4 : Traceflag 2562 & 2549
  210. Performance of index creation
  211. Microsoft JDBC driver 1.2: sqljdbc driver fails to establish secure connection
  212. Microsoft’s SAP Deployment and SQL Server 2012
  213. SAP 7.20 Downwards Compatible Kernel is Finally Released
  214. Upgrade Path to SQL 2008 (R2) and Windows Server 2008 R2
  215. How to virtualize SAP GUI using Microsoft App-V
  216. Uneven Windows Processor Groups
  217. SAP on SQL : General Update for Customers & Partners October 2011
  218. Changes to automatic update statistics in SQL Server – traceflag 2371
  219. Decreased disk space requirement for SAP Unicode systems
  220. How to integrate SQL Server specific hints in ABAP
  221. SQL Server Page Compression became default for SAP
  222. Problems with mounted volumes in a Cluster
  223. SAP on SQL Installation on Mount Points
  224. Accelerating Oracle -> SQL Server Migrations with Fusion-io ioMemory
  225. Customer Proof of Concept on New HP DL980
  226. NIPING – a useful tool from SAP
  227. Changes in affinity settings of SQL Server 2008 R2 to support > 64 Logical Processors
  228. How many logical processors does SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition support
  229. Increased partition support of SQL Server in SAP BW
  230. SQL Server network encryption with SAP
  231. CLP Optimize Storage, Improve Performance & Streamline DBA Tasks with SQL 2008 R2 + PAGE Compression
  232. Online Disk Extension & Windows 2008 R2 Dynamic Memory are Fully Supported for SQL Server
  233. Installation & Configuration of Windows NFS Client to enable Windows to Mount a UNIX File System
  234. Extracting hierarchies from SAP BW 7.3
  235. SAP BW 7 and SQL Server 2008 Star Join Optimization
  236. SAP Support of Windows Server 2008 R2
  237. Column Statistics – No need to create them manually
  238. PowerPivot – a new way of MS BI integration with SAP BW and non-SAP data sources
  239. SSRS 2008 R2 – a new way of MS BI integration with SAP BW and non-SAP data sources
  240. Compressing an SAP database using report MSSCOMPRESS
  241. SAP Now Support In Place Upgrade of Windows for SAP Systems
  242. Some interesting Blog Entries in the Blog site of our Microsoft LOB Practice team
  243. Partitioning Large NUMA Based Servers into Smaller SAP VMs - Question from Jason
  244. Windows 2008 R2 - Groups, Processors, Sockets, Cores Threads, NUMA nodes what is all this?
  245. Windows 2008 R2 Performance Monitor – Processor Information Counters have replaced Processor Counters
  246. Choosing SQL Server compression type for SAP
  247. SQL 2008 R2 is now fully supported by SAP
  248. Secondary Index Compression and Page compression supported by SAP
  249. SAP Landscape Management with SQL Server Policies
  250. Update to the SAP on Oracle -> Windows/SQL Server OS/DB Migration FAQ
  251. Two Database Mirroring cases in one week - one solution
  252. SAP OS/DB Migration to SQL Server - FAQ
  253. New Cluster Quorum Models in Windows 2008
  254. Frequently Asked Questions we heard on the SAP on SQL 2008 Training course this year
  255. 10 Reasons to Upgrade SAP systems to Windows 2008 / Windows 2008 R2
  256. Another great use of SQL Server Database Mirroring
  257. Analyzing Statements with Extended Events (Extended Events Part II)
  258. Extended Events with SAP (Part I)
  259. Monitoring SQL Server I/O performance with SAP
  260. Sensitive question – CHECKDB when and how to execute it in large SAP systems
  261. SQL Server Change Data Capture with SAP
  262. Updated version of sp_use_db_compression – Version 2.42
  263. And another question around SQL Server Database Compression answered
  264. One question around SQL Server Database Compression
  265. Deletion of request in SAP BW orders of magnitude faster after installing SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU6
  266. Performance – what do we mean in regards to SAP workload?
  267. New hashkey algorithm for lockhash values introduced in SQL Server 2008 R2
  268. Upgrade to SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 with minimal downtime
  269. Microsoft’s SAP ERP system productive on SQL Server 2008 R2
  270. Version 2.3 of sap_use_db_compression released
  271. Two Questions in regards to UCS2 compression answered
  272. SQL Server 2008 R2 - UCS2 compression what is it - Impact on SAP systems
  273. New version of sp_use_db_compression available
  274. New SAP on SQL Server 2008 Whitepaper released
  275. SQL execution plans, part 3: how to get the plan
  276. Good Case study released on Customer who used SQL Server 2008 Database Compression
  277. Measuring Memory Consumption of SAP Application Server Instances
  278. Applying SQL Server 2008 Database Compression to SAP systems which already ran on SQL Server 2000 RTM and SP1
  279. SQL execution plans, part 2: SQL compilation
  280. Frequently asked Question - Why do we need SQL Server Enterprise Edition for SAP Netweaver based applications?
  281. SQL execution plans, part 1: SQL statement execution on an SAP system
  282. SAP declares support for SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008
  283. Procedure used for applying Database Compression to Microsoft SAP ERP system
  284. Analyzing a HANGMAN log file, part 2
  285. Update on Rollout of SQL Server 2008 Row Level Compression in Microsoft’s SAP ERP system
  286. Analyzing a HANGMAN log file, part 1
  287. SQL Server SPs, CUs and hotfixes for SAP
  288. SQL Server 2008 Row Level Compression Roll-Out in Microsoft’s SAP ERP system
  289. New Contributor to the blog “SAP on SQL Server”
  290. New version of HANGMAN.VBS and revised documentation released
  291. New and revised SAP OSS notes released
  292. Server running out of memory when copying backup files to other server
  293. Dealing with Scheduled Tasks in a SQL Server Environment using Database Mirroring
  294. SAP OSS notes describing Improvements for SAP Unicode and SAP Platform Migration released
  295. Windows and SQL Server Licensing under Virtualization
  296. SAP Beta Program for SQL Server 2008 started
  297. How does Microsoft perform Backups in their SAP system landscape
  298. Two small experiences using SQL Server Database Snapshots in a SAP landscape
  299. Sporadic but periodic slow Inserts into a table - Why you should apply SQL Server 2005 SP2
  300. Using SAP Code Inspector to improve Quality and Performance
  301. Proportional fill and how to check whether it works
  302. SAP Support for Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008
  303. WebCast on SAP ERP Unicode Migration in Microsoft is available on Microsoft.com
  304. What did we learn using Database Mirroring over the last two years in our SAP ERP system. Second revision
  305. SAP DBACockpit and some related SQL Scripts (Part 3)
  306. Does SAP support the most recent SQL Server Service Packs and Hotfixes?
  307. Hotnews 1067103 released by SAP this week
  308. SAP DBACockpit and some related SQL Scripts (Part 2)
  309. SAP DBACockpit and some related SQL Scripts (Part 1)
  310. SAP Multi Instance Clustering
  311. SAP Application leveraging SQL Server Automatic Update Statistics