Using this functionality, you can create the SNP Glue™ Glue table from a table or a structure that exists on external storage (e.g. Hive on Hadoop, Redshift table, or HANA Native structure).
SNP Glue™ table will be in this case only a pointer to the external table.
After the SNP Glue™ table is created, you can use it for all available features: Data Browser, Data extractions, and InfoProviders.
Procedure:
- Go to SNP Glue™ Data Dictionary or Object Navigator.
- Press Create SNP Glue™ table from an external table icon in SNP Glue™ Data Dictionary or select the package in the context menu or SNP Glue™ tables in Object Navigator.
- Specify the following popup fields:
- SNP Glue™ Table: Name for the newly created SNP Glue™ table.
- Description: Description of new SNP Glue™ table.
- External table: Name of the existing External table from which the SNP Glue™ table will be created.
- Object is view: Is the external object a view?
- Storage ID: Defines storage where the external table exists.
- Package: Package where the new SNP Glue™ table will be created.
4. Proceed
5. New SNP Glue™ table is created.
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