Create Scalar User Defined Functions

Right click on the src folder and choose New Folder.

Enter the name of the folder as functions and click OK.

Click View then Find Command...

Enter hana as the search term, then click on SAP HANA: Create SAP HANA Database Artifact

Click the Browse icon.

Select the functions folder that you created earlier, then click Open.

Use the dropdown, and select Function as the Artifact Type. Give the name of the artifact as get_full_name, then click Create.

You will see a message saying that the new artifact as been created. From the functions folder, click on your new function. The SQLScript function editor will then be opened with the shell of your function code.

Enter the code into the editor as shown here. Please note the default for parameter im_employeeid which makes assigning a value to the parameter optional.

FUNCTION "get_full_name" (
              IN im_firstname NVARCHAR(40) ,
              IN im_middlename NVARCHAR(40),
              IN im_lastname NVARCHAR(40),
              IN im_employeeid NVARCHAR(10) DEFAULT '' )
    			RETURNS ex_fullname NVARCHAR(256) AS
BEGIN

  if :im_middlename IS NULL THEN
     ex_fullname = :im_lastname || ', ' || :im_firstname;
  ELSE
     ex_fullname = :im_lastname || ', ' ||
                   :im_firstname || ' ' || :im_middlename;
  END IF;

  IF :im_employeeid <> '' then
     ex_fullname = :ex_fullname || '(' || :im_employeeid || ')';
  END IF;
END;

Save the function.

Return to your procedure called get_po_header_data and modify it. Start by renaming the LOGINNAME column of the output table to FULLNAME. Also change the output length to 256. This is needed to match later on which the anticipated output structure.

Change the last SELECT statement. Remove the LOGINNAME column from the field list and replace it with a call to the scalar function that you created earlier. Make sure to pass the NAMEFIRST, NAMEMIDDLE and NAMELAST name columns to the scalar function call.

The completed code should look very similar to this.

PROCEDURE "get_po_header_data"(
          OUT EX_TOP_3_EMP_PO_COMBINED_CNT TABLE(
              FULLNAME nvarchar(256),
              CREATE_CNT INTEGER,
              CHANGE_CNT INTEGER,
              COMBINED_CNT INTEGER )  )
   LANGUAGE SQLSCRIPT
   SQL SECURITY INVOKER
   --DEFAULT SCHEMA <default_schema_name>
   READS SQL DATA AS
BEGIN

po_create_cnt =  SELECT COUNT(*) AS CREATE_CNT, "CREATEDBY" as EID
     FROM "OPENSAP_PURCHASEORDER_HEADERS" WHERE ID IN (
                     SELECT "POHEADER_ID"
                          FROM "OPENSAP_PURCHASEORDER_ITEMS"
          WHERE "PRODUCT_PRODUCTID" IS NOT NULL)
            GROUP BY  "CREATEDBY";

po_change_cnt = SELECT COUNT(*) AS CHANGE_CNT, "MODIFIEDBY" as EID
     FROM "OPENSAP_PURCHASEORDER_HEADERS"  WHERE ID IN (
                     SELECT "POHEADER_ID"
                          FROM "OPENSAP_PURCHASEORDER_ITEMS"
          WHERE "PRODUCT_PRODUCTID" IS NOT NULL)
             GROUP BY  "MODIFIEDBY";

EX_TOP_3_EMP_PO_COMBINED_CNT =
        SELECT "get_full_name"( "NAMEFIRST", "NAMEMIDDLE", "NAMELAST") as FULLNAME,
         crcnt.CREATE_CNT, chcnt.CHANGE_CNT,  crcnt.CREATE_CNT +
         chcnt.CHANGE_CNT AS COMBINED_CNT
            FROM "OPENSAP_MD_EMPLOYEES" as emp
            LEFT OUTER JOIN :PO_CREATE_CNT AS crcnt
             ON emp.email = crcnt.EID
           LEFT OUTER JOIN :PO_CHANGE_CNT AS chcnt
           ON emp.email = chcnt.EID
          ORDER BY COMBINED_CNT DESC LIMIT 3;
END

Save the procedure.

Use what you have learned already and perform a deploy.

Then return to the Database Explorer and generate a new CALL statement and run it. Notice the FULLNAME column, it shows the results of the scalar UDF logic.