Showing posts with label fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fun. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Year 2025 – bye bye

Year 2025 was full of challenges for me mostly at personal and family front.

However, as the year 2025 draws to its close I want to conclude it with a little bit of fun. Earlier this year there was an SAP Note 2440630 circulating within posts and discussions on social media. It was painted as a humorous/novelty entry titled something like “Accident at work: Growling noise in the stomach area.” Some posts described it as an SAP Note that jokingly diagnoses stomach growling due to hunger and prescribes eating food. Short excerpt from the note:


It’s filed under Industrial Hygiene and Safety / Incident/Accident Management and starts like a normal issue report:

“During work, you suddenly notice a strange growling background noise… your system administrator cannot find a solution.”

Then it rules out ABAP, DB, network, and hardware problems before stating the real cause:

“insufficient supply of resources for your stomach (hunger).”

The “manual correction steps” are basically: leave your desk, find food, chew, swallow, repeat until the sound stops — with a caution to avoid eating too fast.

 

Apparently after it went viral SAP has removed it. The Note page currently displays “SAP Note/KBA 2440630 does not exist” message. Users can no longer access it via the standard interface, but it was a quite funny things that someone at SAP did :)

My best wishes for a new year MMXXVI to all of you!


Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Devtoberfest

It is becoming a tradition that in autumn SAP developer relation team prepared an initiative called Devtoberfest. In a nutshell it is an contest for SAP community – for developers. It lasts for four weeks of October month. Each week has assigned a number of activities. By fulfilling, the activities a one can collect a points. The activities are mostly a tutorials located at developers.sap.com There is a nice gameboard (old one gameboard) that shows progress of individual during the contest. Each day of the week is dedicated to a topic (e.g. ABAP, UI technologies (IU5, Fiori), Analytics (Machine Learning, Data Warehousing), Low-Code/No-Code, Cloud (Containerization, Kubernetes).

I is a really fun to take a part in the Devtoberfest plus you get to learn a ton of new things!

Below is how I did during the event during years:

2025



2024



2023



2022



2021



Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Magic of unwanted 3

Recently I found following two funny things in SAP. First one is from ABAP code and second one from SAP BW’s DTP object. Enjoy! J

I tweeted them also.

























Thursday, July 31, 2014

Magic of unwanted 2

Here’s again short post on magic of unwanted topic. This time about naming of variables which turned to be something which developer didn’t (or did) wanted J
















Other posts on the same topic:

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Funniest SAP notes ever 6

Today I’m depicting one BW note which on 1st sight may not any sense at all. However there must be SAP Notes referring to this one. Nevertheless I would expect at least short notice in this one about its purpose – not just there is no symptom.





Other post from this series:

-      Update 26/02/2013 –
I got more clue about “There is no symptom.” notes. Actually they are meant as auxiliary notes which are referred by other Notes. Anyway as name of this note says “This SAP Note does not contain an error correction” it is very tricky to image what is this all about :-)


Saturday, October 27, 2012

SAP HANA ads


SAP’s HANA is slowly harvesting success among customers. This week SAP announced record results for 3rd quarter of 2012. HANA contributed with 3 digit growth. Even though; SAP is investing to promote HANA as well. This week I’ve seen full page advertisement in October 24th edition of Wall Street Journal. Same or similar ad was circulating in the same newspaper also in September this year.




 
PS: click here to see SAP’s ad in response to Oracle’s Exadata published earlier of this month.

- update 09-12-2012 - 

Another ad which was circulating in the same newspaper in October 2012:



- update 10-01-2013 - 

Ad introducing ERP on HANA followed by press teleconference called SAP Business Suite Powered by SAP HANA Reinvents the Real-Time Enterprise. So today is the day when SAP announced availability of their flagship product on HANA.


- update 26-02-2013 - 

Same ad for introducing ERP SAP Business Suite Powered by SAP HANA appeared in WSJ.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Fact check for Oracle

On last week there was big event happening – Oracle’s Open World. It is Oracle’s conference for business people, IT decision makers, partners and customers held on annual basis. We can compare this to SAP’s SAPPHIRE. As always Larry Ellison gave his key note and a lot of funny remarks on SAP were heard. It is not very common for SAP to answer on competitor’s remarks by ads in newspaper. But this time SAP did it. I’ve seen in October 4th edition of Wall Street Journal following ad:



So SAP prepared fact check for Oracles’s fact checkers :-) Similarly Vishal Sikka prepared blog on topic of comparing SAP’s HANA with Oracle Exadata.
Make up your own opinion on this matter and in few years we might see who’s right.