With SAP HANA Cloud, hybrid landscapes (on-premise systems working with cloud systems) have become easily attainable. However, when doing aggregate data analysis, it might be easier to have the data of interest in a single source to keep data types and functionality consistent. We will see that with a HANA Cloud database and remote connections, the movement of data from multiple HANA instances to an SAP HANA Cloud data lake can be done from a single SQL console! Today, I am going to bring data from an on-premise SAP HANA system together with an SAP HANA Cloud database in a single SAP HANA data lake. I will start from a landscape which has an SAP HANA Cloud database, SAP HANA database, and SAP HANA data lake connected. The Plan The plan is to aggregate the data and move it to an SAP HANA data lake using virtual tables within the SAP HANA Cloud database. Then, I will use EXPORT statements from the HANA Cloud database console to export the data to Amazon S3. After the export, the data will be loaded into a data lake instance with a LOAD table statement. Let’s begin. Creating the Virtual Tables I will assume that the remote connection from the HANA Cloud database to the HANA on-premise database has already been established. Then, creating the virtual tables can be done through the SAP Database Explorer. Then, after the tables are created, I can check for them in the database catalogue. The Export and Import Query The best part of this method of moving the data from multiple instances into the data lake using this method is that it can be done from a single SQL Console and it can be done in one run too! Aside: in this blog we will be using Amazon S3 as the export destination for the data. It is planned for HANA Cloud database to support exports to the HANA data lake file store. This enables two possibilities. The first possibility is to use the file store as a temporary location for the data while it is loaded via a load table statement. The second possibility is that we store the data in the file store and use SQL on Files to query it. The choice will be dependent on what the value of this data is. Anyhow, here is the export statements from the SQL console. -- TABLES FROM ON-PREMISE HANA EXPORT INTO 's3-eu-central-1://:@/mydir/customer_blog.csv' FROM HXE_CUSTOMER; EXPORT INTO 's3-eu-central-1://:@/mydir/lineitem_blog.csv' FROM HXE_LINEITEM; EXPORT INTO 's3-eu-central-1://:@/mydir/nation_blog.csv' FROM HXE_NATION; EXPORT INTO 's3-eu-central-1://:@/mydir/orders_blog.csv' FROM HXE_ORDERS; -- TABLES FOM HANA CLOUD DATABASE EXPORT INTO 's3-eu-central-1://:@/mydir/partsupp_blog.csv' FROM PARTSUPP_CS; EXPORT INTO 's3-eu-central-1://:@/mydir/part_blog.csv' FROM PART_CS; EXPORT INTO 's3-eu-central-1://:@/mydir/supplier_blog.csv' FROM SUPPLIER_CS; EXPORT INTO 's3-eu-central-1://:@/mydir/region_blog.csv' FROM REGION_CS; As we can see, the statements are relatively repetitive and there is no syntax difference between exporting a virtual table and a HANA table. They require some temporary storage destination and a table full of data. Next, we can use the REMOTE_EXECUTE procedure to push a LOAD table statement down to the data lake. -- LOAD TABLE FROM EXPORT CALL SYS.REMOTE_EXECUTE('HDL', 'LOAD TABLE REGION( R_REGIONKEY, R_NAME, R_COMMENT ) USING FILE ''s3:///mydir/region_blog.csv'' DELIMITED BY ''|'' FORMAT CSV ACCESS_KEY_ID '''' SECRET_ACCESS_KEY '''' REGION ''eu-central-1'' ESCAPES OFF QUOTES OFF; LOAD TABLE CUSTOMER( C_CUSTKEY, C_NAME, C_ADDRESS, C_NATIONKEY, C_PHONE, C_ACCTBAL, C_MKTSEGMENT, C_COMMENT ) USING FILE ''s3:///mydir/customer_blog.csv'' DELIMITED BY ''|'' FORMAT CSV ACCESS_KEY_ID '''' SECRET_ACCESS_KEY '''' REGION ''eu-central-1'' ESCAPES OFF QUOTES OFF; LOAD TABLE NATION( N_NATIONKEY, N_NAME, N_REGIONKEY, N_COMMENT ) USING FILE ''s3:///mydir/nation_blog.csv'' DELIMITED BY ''|'' FORMAT CSV ACCESS_KEY_ID '''' SECRET_ACCESS_KEY '''' REGION ''eu-central-1'' ESCAPES OFF QUOTES OFF; LOAD TABLE SUPPLIER( S_SUPPKEY, S_NAME, S_ADDRESS, S_NATIONKEY, S_PHONE, S_ACCTBAL, S_COMMENT ) USING FILE ''s3:///mydir/supplier_blog.csv'' DELIMITED BY ''|'' FORMAT CSV ACCESS_KEY_ID '''' SECRET_ACCESS_KEY '''' REGION ''eu-central-1'' ESCAPES OFF QUOTES OFF; LOAD TABLE CUSTOMER( C_CUSTKEY, C_NAME, C_ADDRESS, C_NATIONKEY, C_PHONE, C_ACCTBAL, C_MKTSEGMENT, C_COMMENT ) USING FILE ''s3:///mydir/customer_blog.csv'' DELIMITED BY ''|'' FORMAT CSV ACCESS_KEY_ID '''' SECRET_ACCESS_KEY '''' REGION ''eu-central-1'' ESCAPES OFF QUOTES OFF; LOAD TABLE ORDERS( O_ORDERKEY, O_CUSTKEY, O_ORDERSTATUS, O_TOTALPRICE, O_ORDERDATE, O_ORDERPRIORITY, O_CLERK, O_SHIPPRIORITY, O_COMMENT ) USING FILE ''s3:///mydir/orders_blog.csv'' DELIMITED BY ''|'' FORMAT CSV ACCESS_KEY_ID '''' SECRET_ACCESS_KEY '''' REGION ''eu-central-1'' ESCAPES OFF QUOTES OFF; LOAD TABLE PART( P_PARTKEY, P_NAME, P_MFGR, P_BRAND, P_TYPE, P_SIZE, P_CONTAINER, P_RETAILPRICE, P_COMMENT ) USING FILE ''s3:///mydir/part_blog.csv'' DELIMITED BY ''|'' FORMAT CSV ACCESS_KEY_ID '''' SECRET_ACCESS_KEY '''' REGION ''eu-central-1'' ESCAPES OFF QUOTES OFF; LOAD TABLE LINEITEM( L_ORDERKEY, L_PARTKEY, L_SUPPKEY, L_LINENUMBER, L_QUANTITY, L_EXTENDEDPRICE, L_DISCOUNT, L_TAX, L_RETURNFLAG, L_LINESTATUS, L_SHIPDATE, L_COMMITDATE, L_RECEIPTDATE, L_SHIPINSTRUCT, L_SHIPMODE, L_COMMENT ) USING FILE ''s3:///mydir/lineitem_blog.csv'' DELIMITED BY ''|'' FORMAT CSV ACCESS_KEY_ID '''' SECRET_ACCESS_KEY '''' REGION ''eu-central-1'' ESCAPES OFF QUOTES OFF; LOAD TABLE PARTSUPP( PS_PARTKEY, PS_SUPPKEY, PS_AVAILQTY, PS_SUPPLYCOST, PS_COMMENT ) USING FILE ''s3:///mydir/partsupp_blog.csv'' DELIMITED BY ''|'' FORMAT CSV ACCESS_KEY_ID '''' SECRET_ACCESS_KEY '''' REGION ''eu-central-1'' ESCAPES OFF QUOTES OFF; END'); We can place all this SQL code in a single console, run it, and we’ve aggregated our data into a single data lake instance! That’s it, this is a method for moving large amounts of data from multiple HANA systems to a data lake. Another approach is to use SELECT…INSERT statements which can be seen below. Keep in mind, the SELECT…INSERT method may not be suitable for large amounts of data due to performance reasons. INSERT INTO (SELECT * FROM );