Abstract: Data is received that characterizes a business object that includes a plurality of nodes each having at least one element, at least one of the nodes comprising at least one node key that in turn identifies at least one of element of the corresponding node. At least a portion of the received data is persisted into at least one database table using the at least one node key to define a structure of the at least one database table. Thereafter, the business object can be instantiated using the at least one database table. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.

Abstract: A new query language can be embedded in a business application programming language (e.g., the ABAP language). A query language consistent with implementations of the current subject matter can be based on a graph data-model of connected business objects (BO) or other data objects and can be designed as an efficient query language embedded into the business application programming language runtime, thereby allowing expression of business logic in a declarative manner.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to computing, and in particular, to methods, apparatuses and systems for operating on a database. Certain embodiments implement a consumption services reference by an SADL design-time tool that allows users to create SADL use modes based on existing Business Objects (BOs), business object entities and associations. The consumption service can provide a design-time tool or user with indications of a particular BO entity's availability based on a particular consumption scenario within a given SADL mode. Indications of availability can be built into or referenced by the design-time tool to give users design-time feedback as to why a certain BO entity is not available. The indications of availability can be provided separately from a compiler or compiler functionality. The indications of availability can be also be reused by the compiler, thus reducing redundant checks and operations and decoupling the compiler and any design-time tool from the check logic.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for providing a query language based on a model. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include receiving a first query; generating, based on a model including metadata representing a data structure, a second query specific to the data structure stored in a database; and sending the second query to the database. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.

Abstract: A back-end service adaptation system provides access to normalized data in a data repository for a consumer runtime environment sending a query request for denormalized data. The back-end service adaptation system can include a data access service layer, a parser layer, and a back-end service adaptation runtime layer. The consumer runtime can use a service adaptation definition language (SADL), and the parser and data access service can be configured to convert and translate the SADL request for the back-end service adaptation runtime layer.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for providing value help. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include receiving at least one field of a row of a list presented at a user interface; transforming, at a service component rather than the user interface, the at least one field into a query; and sending the transformed query to a database. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to computing, and in particular, to a systems and methods for a querying a database. Certain embodiments implement a model-driven database query (“the SADL query”) facilitating a design-time tool that allows a developer to create the query based upon existing Business Objects (BOs) and their associations. This SADL query leverages mapping between business-layer entities and database-layer entities, such mapping being derived from association metadata already extant in the business model used to create the Business Objects. In certain embodiments, query views may be based upon associations present within the business layer, rather than upon database-level entities (such as joins or restriction rules) that are typically relied upon in conventional query creation. Embodiments of the present invention may thus align query creation more closely with the structure of the business layer, and may also render query design agnostic relative to the identity of the underlying database.

Abstract: A back-end service adaptation system provides access to normalized data in a data repository for a consumer runtime environment sending a query request for denormalized data. The back-end service adaptation system can include a data access service layer, a parser layer, and a back-end service adaptation runtime layer. The consumer runtime can use a service adaptation definition language (SADL), and the parser and data access service can be configured to convert and translate the SADL request for the back-end service adaptation runtime layer.