What´s New? SAP HANA SPS 07 Fuzzy Search (Delta from SPS 06 to SPS 07)

SAP HANA Product Management November, 2013

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Scope

The scope of the extended development topic “SAP HANA Fuzzy Search” covers

Fault-tolerant search

Duplicate prevention

Search rule sets

Search with synonyms (term mapping)

Related topics

Fulltext search

Text analysis

Fuzzy Search Options

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SAP HANA SPS 07 – Fuzzy Search – Fuzzy Search Options

New capabilities

• Substring search available for freestyle search queries

Benefits

• Substring search in multiple columns within one CONTAINS() predicate

• Search for business objects with multiple NVARCHAR columns without FULLTEXT

INDEX

substring

search

Improved Support for ABAP

Applications

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SAP HANA SPS 07 – Fuzzy Search – Support for ABAP Applications

New capabilities

• Term mapping tables can now be created using the ABAP DDIC

• Term mapping and stopword tables can contain a client column

Benefits

• Improved integration of term mappings and stopwords in ABAP applications

• Support for multiple clients

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Support for ABAP Applications

Create term mapping tables using the ABAP DDIC

Term mapping tables use SQL types available in the DDIC

Support for term mapping/stopword tables with client

column

Client-specific term mapping/stopword definitions possible

Create a view that uses SESSION_CONTEXT('CLIENT'):

CREATE VIEW termmappingsview AS

SELECT mapping_id, list_id, language_code,

term_1, term_2, weight

FROM termmappings

WHERE mndt = SESSION_CONTEXT('CLIENT');

SQL views or attribute views

Improved Support for

Simplified Chinese

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SAP HANA SPS 07 – Fuzzy Search – Support for Simplified Chinese

New capabilities

• Improved fuzzy search for data written in Simplified Chinese

• Search data written in different scripts (Latin and Simplified Chinese)

Benefits

• Improved search results

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Simplified Chinese

Search data written in Simpified Chinese

Compare Pinyin transcription of Chinese characters to find additional

search results

Search data written in different scripts

New search option 'interScriptMatching'

Available for Latin and Chinese characters

Compares Pinyin transcription of Chinese characters to Latin

characters

Beijing Search for Pinyin 北京

Search: Expected result:

北京 Pinyin transcription Beijing

Improved Search Rule Sets

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SAP HANA SPS 07 – Fuzzy Search – Search Rule Sets

New capabilities

• New column condition 'if not equals'

• Pass-through values for result table columns

• Parallel execution of search rules

Benefits

• Easier consumption of search rule sets

• Reduced response times for search rule sets

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Column Condition 'if not equals'

Skip a rule if a column does not equal a given value

Example:

Create a search rule that is valid for one country code only;

skip this rule for all other countries

Benefits

Improved configuration of conditional execution of search rules

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Pass-Through Values for Result Table Columns

Copy input values to the search result

Input values:

values given in the call to EXECUTE_SEARCH_RULE_SET

Examples:

a sequence number,

the primary key of a input record

Benefits

Result rows belonging to the same search can be identified even

when writing the results of multiple subsequent searches into a

single result table.

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Parallel Execution of Search Rules

Search rules are executed in parallel

Within a single call to EXECUTE_SEARCH_RULE_SET

Up to a rule with ruleCut option

Benefits

Reduced response time for search rule sets containing multiple rules

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Markus Fath

SAP HANA Product Management

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