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UsingTemporalJointofetchtheresultsetwithinthe
TimeintervalinSAPHANA
PostedbyAkshayNayakinSAPHANAandInMemoryComputingonSep28,201412:04:26PM

HelloAll,

Inthisblog,iamgoingtoexplainhowtouseTemporalJoinfeatureavailableinHANAtofetchtheRecordsfrom
transactiontablebasedonTimeintervalfieldsofMasterTable.

Problem:

SometimewecomeacrossscenariowhereinweneedtoanalysethedatabyjoiningTransactiontableandMaster
tableonkeycolumnandfetchthedataforaparticulartimeperiodasspeicifiedinFromandTodatesofMastertable.
InthiscaseweneedtogoforaNonEquijoin.ThiscanbeeasilyachievedthroughScriptbasedViewswhereinyou
useeitherBETWEENoperatoror>and<operator.HowdoweachievethesameusingAnalyticalviewinHANA?

Solution:

ToachievetheabovestatedprobleminAnalyticalview,wehavetogoforaTemporaljoin.Youcreateatemporaljoin
usingthetemporalcolumnthatspecifiesthetimeintervalwiththestartandtheenddate.Theresultsetisfetched
basedonthetimeintervalmappedusingthetemporalcolumn.Thatmeansarecordisonlyincludedintheresultsetif
thetimeintervallieswithinthevalidtimeinterval.ThisfeatureisavailableinSAPHANAstartingfromSP05.

Ihavecreated2tablesProduct_masterandProduct_salestableandloadedwithsampledataasshownbelow,

ProductMaster:

Product_sales:

NowletscreateanattributeviewcontainingmastertableProduct_master.

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AlsowewillcreateAnalyticalviewwithProduct_salestableindatafoundationlayerandletstrytojoinabovecreated
attributeviewinLogicaljoinnode.

Inthelogicaljoin,letscreateatemporaljoinbetweenthedatefieldofthefacttabletoaninterval(toandfrom)fieldof
theattributeview.Thesupporteddatatypesare:timestamp,date,andinteger.
NowselectTemporalcolumnthatindicatestimecolumninfacttable,fromandtocolumnfromattributeviewwhich
specifiestimeintervalandTemporalconditiononwhethertoincludeorexcludeDates.Thevariousoptionsavailable
forTemporalconditionare,IncludetoandExcludefrom,Excludeboth,Includeto.WewillkeepExcludetoandInclude
fromoption.

ActivateandruntheAnalyticalviewandyoucanseetheoutput.

WecanseethatP001productvaluefordate20140310,P003productvaluefordate20140410and20140628
hasbeenfilteredsincetheyfallbeyondthetimeinterval.AlsoyoucannoticeP002productvaluefordate20140426
hasbeenfilteredsincewehavekeptExcludetoandIncludefromoption.

ThusweareabletoachievetheintendedresultthroughAnalyticalview.

Thanksforreadingthisblog,YourSuggestionsandfeedbacksaremostwelcome

Regards,
Akshay

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PetrStastnyMar5,20153:44PM

Hi,
honestlyIdonotunderstandtheexample.ThetablecontentyouhaveintroducedIwouldcall
inconsistentdatabase.HowcanIhaveasalesforproductwhichisnotvalidforthatdate?
Petr
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