This is the first part of a set of 2 posts that I’ll submit in the following days, covering the Support Package Stack Upgrade process. Directly or indirectly, many of you have already been in projects were you’ve heard this term. Weather you seek deep technical knowledge or just an overview of the process, understanding [...]

Since I launched SAPLAB.org, I’ve received several e-mails from beginners or plain curious on SAP asking me questions like “What does SAP stand for?” or “What’s the difference between ERP and ECC?“. Even though I know for a fact that this blog is targeted as a niche blog, I think that it would be worth [...]

This how-to tutorial explains the TREX Basis Installation as well as the some post configuration activities, needed for the TREX to work. SAP NetWeaver Search and Classification (TREX) finds information in both structured and unstructured data. TREX provides SAP applications with services for searching and classifying large collections of documents and for searching and aggregating [...]

Recently one of my blog readers asked me about installing the Netweaver Developer Studio using an alternative version of MaxDB. This is something I haven’t thought about much, since the installations that I’ve done were local installations, for my own use, and normally from scratch. They served the only purpose to allow myself to have [...]

SAP Basis administrators are responsible for a number of complex operations and functions. Basis administrators must learn how to manage SAP Basis transactions, structure Basis security, handle Basis copying and fix printing problems. The following transaction codes are the most relevant for the Basis Administration tasks.