2. Oracle and SAP Development Update
Session id: 40041
Oracle and SAP Development Update
Dr. Christian Graf Jan Klokkers
Development Manager Senior Director
DB Platforms Oracle SAP Development
SAP AG Oracle Corporation

3. Topics Introduction SAP Technical Product Architecture
SAP Platform Support
SAP-Oracle Certification Matrix
SAP-Oracle Release Strategy
SAP-Oracle Product Integration
SAP BR*News

4. Introduction More than 14 years of SAP – Oracle cooperation
More than 10,000 SAP customers use Oracle
2 out of 3 SAP installations run on Oracle Database
Joint SAP & Oracle development/platform team in Walldorf
Joint support teams in Rot (Germany) & US
SAP & Oracle Partner/Presales teams in Walldorf

5. SAP Technical Product Architecture
Enterprise Portal
SRM/CRM KM BW
APO
...
R/3 Enterprise
Java Apps
ABAP Java
Web Application Server (WAS)
ABAP Stack
J2EE Java Stack
thin
JDBC
Oracle Call Interface
...
Oracle Database

6. SAP Platform Support AIX: --- X HP-UX PA-RISC: --- X
32 Bit
64 Bit
AIX: X
HP-UX PA-RISC: X
HP-UX IA64: Ramp Up
HP Tru64: X
Solaris: X
Linux: (SLES8, RH AS 2.1)H X Ramp Up
Windows: X X

7. SAP Platform Support OS platform coverage: General info
SAP Kernel Release Note Number
3.1I
4.0x/4.5x
4.6x
6.x

8. SAP on Oracle Certification Matrix
Desupport
SAP
31I /03 12/05
40B /03 12/05
45B /03 12/05
WAS 4.6C /03 12/05
WAS /03 12/05
WAS (8.1.7) /03 12/05
WAS /05
WAS 6.40 (Q4/03) /05

9. Oracle Database 10g Status at SAP
SAP AG is Active Beta Partner
SAP Product Certification planned with Terminal Release of Oracle Database 10g in 2005

10. “SAP will support Oracle 10g, the safe, reliable and scalable clustered database.”
Karl-Heinz Hess,
Member of the Extended Management Board, SAP AG 1 38 2

11. Oracle Functionality in SAP Products (Part I)
Data Guard – Physical Standby
Cost Based Optimizer and CBO Hints
Partitioning
Parallel Query
NT Failsafe
OCI
JDBC
PL/SQL
RMAN
Bitmap Indexes (SAP BW)

12. Oracle Functionality in SAP Products (Part II)
Star Query Optimization with specific SAP enhancements
LMTS
ASSM
Automatic PGA
Automatic SGA
SP Files
Online Redefinition Package
DBMS_STATS Package
DBMS_METADATA Package
Connect By
SQL Merge
Unrecoverable Operations
LOBS
Transportable Tablespaces
Table Monitoring Attribute

13. Oracle 9.2 Feature Integration
SAP OSS note :
Entry point for 9i feature recommendations!

14. Real Application Clusters – Certification Process
RAC certification per platform
Three step process
Technical validation
Pilot customer
Ramp Up Phase
Intensive OS Partner collaboration required
Hardware
Engineers
Current status in OSS Note

15. Real Application Clusters – Requirements
Global/Cluster Filesystem. Initial Certification Examples:
Fujitsu Siemens: Net App Filer (Solaris, Linux) or
Fujitsu CFS
HP Tru64: TruCluster
HP-UX PA-RISC: Veritas Advanced Cluster
HP-UX IA-64: Veritas Advanced Cluster
IBM AIX: GPFS
Linux: Oracle CFS
SUN: Sun Cluster with PxFS
Windows: Oracle CFS

16. Real Application Clusters – Certification Status by Platform
HP Tru64
First productive customer ABB
Ramp Up Phase (up to ten more customers)
IBM AIX
One Pilot customer finished
Second Pilot Customer
Ramp Up Phase in Q4CY2003
Other platforms
Certification process started
Ramp Up Phase in Q1/Q2CY2004

17. BR*Tool News Major enhancement requirements
Support for MCOD configurations
Support for RAC configurations
Automatic desaster recovery
Support of new Oracle features (e.g. Online Redefinition)
Introduction of uniform menu-driven user interfaces
Graphical user interface
Character user interface
Better integration of BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE and BRRESTORE during database recovery
Improved Quality

18. BR*Tool Milestones 2002 04/2003 Q3/2003
BRCONNECT: Statistics, Check, etc.
04/2003
BRRECOVER: Recovery
BRGUI: Graphical User Interface
Q3/2003
BRSPACE: Space & Object Management

19. BRCONNECT Check and update statistics: brconnect –f stats
Replaces sapdba –checkopt | –analyze | –statistics | –delete
Check database system: brconnect –f check
Replaces sapdba –check
Adapt NEXT extents: brconnect –f next
Replaces sapdba –next
Cleanup DBA logs: brconnect –f cleanup
Replaces sapdba –cleanup

20. BRRECOVER Design decisions Main Functions
Complete redesign of SAPDBA recovery functionality
Integration in the BR*Tools package
New menu-driven user interface, including graphical frontend
Significant funtional enhancements
Main Functions
Complete database recovery
Database point-in-time recovery
NEW: Tablespace point-in-time recovery (MCOD)
Whole database reset
Restore of individual backup files (Expert only)
Restore and application of archivelog files (Expert only)
NEW: Disaster recovery

21. BRSPACE Available in Q3-Q4 2003 for WEB AS 6.40 Space Management
Extend tablespace
Create tablespace
Drop tablespace
Alter tablespace
Show tablespaces
Alter database file
Move database file
Show database files
Object Management
Reorganize tables/indexes (online)
Alter table/index
Show tables/indexes
Instance Management
Startup/Shutdown database (single instance and RAC)
Switch redolog file
Toggle archivelog mode
Show instance(s) status
Alter/Show database parameters
DBSTATC exceptions for special objects overwrite the method defined with „-m“. If you want to ignore the DBSTATC settings, you can use other „-m“ options like „E=„ or „=X“ (see online documentation)
The default database owner is SAPR3 / SAP<sid> (dependent on environment variable dbs_ora_schema).
Available in Q3-Q4 2003
for WEB AS 6.40

22. BRGUI – Screenshots
DBSTATC exceptions for special objects overwrite the method defined with „-m“. If you want to ignore the DBSTATC settings, you can use other „-m“ options like „E=„ or „=X“ (see online documentation)
The default database owner is SAPR3 / SAP<sid> (dependent on environment variable dbs_ora_schema).

23. DBSTATC exceptions for special objects overwrite the method defined with „-m“. If you want to ignore the DBSTATC settings, you can use other „-m“ options like „E=„ or „=X“ (see online documentation)
The default database owner is SAPR3 / SAP<sid> (dependent on environment variable dbs_ora_schema).

24. DBSTATC exceptions for special objects overwrite the method defined with „-m“. If you want to ignore the DBSTATC settings, you can use other „-m“ options like „E=„ or „=X“ (see online documentation)
The default database owner is SAPR3 / SAP<sid> (dependent on environment variable dbs_ora_schema).

25. Sources of Information
BRCONNECT: SAP note
BRRECOVER: SAP note
BRSPACE: SAP note , (Reorg)
BRGUI: SAP note
Technical documents:
-> Media Library ->
General -> BRCONNECT
Backup and Recovery -> Restore and Recovery
Space Management -> BRSPACE (in development)
DBSTATC exceptions for special objects overwrite the method defined with „-m“. If you want to ignore the DBSTATC settings, you can use other „-m“ options like „E=„ or „=X“ (see online documentation)
The default database owner is SAPR3 / SAP<sid> (dependent on environment variable dbs_ora_schema).

26. Outlook WEB AS 6.40 and beyond All SAPDBA functions moved to BR*Tools
BR*Tools 6.40 package replaces SAPDBA completely (no SAPDBA shipment planned)
SAPDBA will be maintained for older releases but not developed any more
DBSTATC exceptions for special objects overwrite the method defined with „-m“. If you want to ignore the DBSTATC settings, you can use other „-m“ options like „E=„ or „=X“ (see online documentation)
The default database owner is SAPR3 / SAP<sid> (dependent on environment variable dbs_ora_schema).

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