Topic 8: Consumption of

Stored Procedure in ABAP

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 Consumption of HANA Stored Procedure
in ABAP
There are two methods of using HANA Stored Procedure in our ABAP
programming:

 Calling SAP HANA Stored Procedure through Native SQL

 Using Database Procedure Proxy to expose HANA Procedure

Both the process has its pros and cons, but it is better to use Database proxy over
the native SQL.

Diagram Source: SAP

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 Native SQL process vs Database Proxy

Advantage of Native SQL process over Database Proxy

 Faster development, lesser effort – Once you have the stored procedure created in the HANA
DB, you can write native SQL to access that directly.

 No extra ABAP artifact, less maintenance – As no other ABAP artifact to be created (like DB
Proxy) maintenance cost will be lesser in this case

 Native SQL Development can be done in SAP GUI as well as ADT, whereas for DB proxy it
required to be done in ADT only

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 Native SQL process vs Database Proxy
Advantage of Database Proxy over Native SQL process

 Native SQL Process is tedious and error prone

 Full advantage of ABAP development environment available

 Procedure proxy call is similar like Function Module, which is quite familiar for ABAP developer
and are easy to use

 In case of change in DB Procedure the code changing process is totally manual, but for proxy it
is semi-manual and proxy can be synchronized while editing the same as shown below:

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 Calling SAP HANA Stored Procedure
through Native SQL
In your ABAP report define a type having two member (one for parameter another for value) of type
string and declare an internal table of that type.
Pass the Call statement in a string.
lv_sql = ‘CALL <FULL NAME OF PROCEDURE> (PARAM1 , PARAM2, …… ,PARAMn) WITH OVERVIEW’
Execute the above SQL query by using the method EXECUTE_QUERY of class CL_SQL_STATEMENT and
get that result in an object of type CL_SQL_RESULT_SET.
Get the queried data in the table defined in step 1.
Read the table above with <PARAMETER_NAME> = <VALUE of the Parameter>. This will return a
temporary table name in Value field where the actual result of the query corresponding to the
parameter value saved.
Execute another SQL query following step 2 and 3 and the result will be available in your internal table.

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 Database Procedure Proxy
Switch to the ABAP perspective in ADT
Select the Package and right-click on it and select New -> Other ABAP Repository Object from the
context menu. Filter for “Database Procedure Proxy", select it and press on Next
Provide the Name of the Proxy and its description in the dialog box.
Also provide the name of existing HANA procedure and the name of the interface to be created.
Adjust type to be used in interface (refer to the table below)

HANA Data Type ABAP Dictionary Type

SMALLINT INT2
INTEGER INT4
DECIMAL DEC
SMALLDECIMAL DEC
FLOAT FLTP
NVARCHAR CHAR
VARBINARY RAW
BLOB RAWSTRING
NCLOB STRING

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 Database Procedure Proxy
In the ABAP program declare the related parameters for Proxy similar to type in generated interface.
Call the Proxy in your ABAP program as below:
CALL DATABASE PROCEDURE <PROXY_NAME>
EXPORTING
E_PAR1 = V_PARAM1
E_PAR2 = V_PARAM2
IMPORTING
I_PAR1 = LT_DATA1
I_PAR2 = LT_DATA2.

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 Database Procedure Proxy
Below picture will explain the high level architecture of using Database Procedure in ABAP.