ABAP development guidelines for BW

Does anyone know of any paper on abap guidelines/best practises in BW ?
Thank you,

Hi RPD,
I'm not sure if there are any best practices for ABAP specifically for BW. If there are any, then I suppose the guys in the BW forum will know it.
Regards,
Anand Mandalika.

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Tod Kuykendall wrote:
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SAP HANA development languages for ABAP Developer

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If companies start using HANA I would think most ABAP developments just querying to get data would need to be rewritten-even the webdynpro applications for performance.
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Edited by: sk123456 on Sep 29, 2011 3:21 AM
Edited by: sk123456 on Sep 29, 2011 3:35 AM

Hello Sk,
so far (with HANA 1.0 SPS 2), the only relevant languages to learn is SQL and SQL Script. Check http://service.sap.com/hana which has SQL and SQL Script Guides.
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