Provision SAP HANA Cloud trial account
Below are the steps to provision SAP Hana Database using a trial account
Let’s start with creating a temporary email for registration purposes
| Don’t close the above window, otherwise a new email id would get generated. |
Go to sap.com and navigate to products → Trials and Demos
Click Advanced Trials
Click SAP BTP Trial
Click Start your free 90-day trial
Paste the temporary email id that we created in the first step, and click Next
We fill in our details and click Submit
It’s time to check the inbox of our temporary email account
Notice that there is an email received in our temporary email account
Open the email and click to activate the trial account
It will prompt to create a password. Provide a password and click Submit
The trial account is now created. Click to start the trial
Provide your phone number and click Continue
We receive an OTP on the phone number. Provide the code and click continue
Select the region as US East (VA) - AWS
Click Continue
The SAP BTP trial account is ready. Click Go to your Trial account
Click the Trial sub-account
Open Instances and Subscriptions
It’s time to create a subscription. Click the Create button
While creating a subscription, Select service as SAP Hana Cloud and Plan as tools and click Create
Notice that SAP Hana Cloud subscription is now created. Click Users on the left panel
Select the username (temporary email that we supplied earlier) and click Assign Role Collection
Search hana and select all the 3 role collections that gets displayed. Click Assign Role Collection
Our user now has all the 3 role collections. Click Instances and Subscriptions
Now, click SAP Hana Cloud application under subscriptions
There are no instances yet. Let’s click Create Instance
Select Type as SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA Database. Click Next Step
Provide Instance Name, Description, password for DBADMIN administrator.
Select the latest version 2024.2 (QRC 1/2024). Click Next Step
Keep everything as default. Click Next Step
Click Next Step
Select Allow all IP addresses and click Next Step
Click Review and Create
Click Create Instance
Notice that the provisioning of SAP Hana Database instance has started. It takes some time to provision - please be patient.
Once the instance is provisioned (status is displayed as Running) we can get the datasource url (SQL Endpoint) by clicking the instance and selecting Connections
We navigate to SAP Hana Database Explorer by click the …
Provide the administrator credentials and click OK
Open SQL console and create the table CRICKET_WORLD_CUP using the following DDL statement:
CREATE TABLE CRICKET_WORLD_CUP (
_ID VARCHAR2(255) PRIMARY KEY,
CONTENT CLOB,
EMBEDDING REAL_VECTOR(1536)
)
Navigate to hana_dev_db → Catalog → Tables to find our table CRICKET_WORLD_CUP
Right-click on the table and click Open Data
Notice that the table data is now displayed. There are now rows as we didn’t create any embeddings yet.
Next steps: SAP Hana Vector Engine
