Knowledge Base

Survival Guide

12guides on keeping SAP systems alive. Written by people who have survived the things they're writing about.

BASIS & Infrastructure

Transport Management Without Losing Your Sanity

TransportsChange ManagementCTSSTMS

System Copy Checklist: What SAP Documentation Misses

System CopyBASISSWPMPost-Copy

Kernel Upgrades: A Survival Timeline

KernelMaintenanceBASISDowntime

Reading the Workload Monitor Without Guessing

PerformanceSM66SM50WorkloadBASIS

Unicode Conversion: Everything That Can Go Wrong

UnicodeMigrationBASISR3loadUCCHECK

Security & Authorization

Building an Authorization Concept That Won't Get You Audited

AuthorizationSecurityPFCGGRCAudit

SU25: Upgrading Authorization Proposals the Right Way

AuthorizationSU25UpgradePFCG

Firefighter Access: EAM Without the Chaos

SecurityGRCFirefighterEAMAudit

Performance & HANA

HANA Memory Management: What the Numbers Actually Mean

HANAPerformanceMemoryDBA

ABAP SQL Anti-Patterns That Kill Your HANA Performance

ABAPSQLHANAPerformanceCode Quality

Upgrades & Migrations

The S/4HANA Migration Reality Check

S/4HANAMigrationSUMSimplificationProject

Brownfield vs Greenfield: The Honest Comparison

S/4HANAStrategyMigrationBrownfieldGreenfield