Where can you find the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform maintenance schedule calendar?
SAP maintains a release calendar for the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform, indicating by week when various support packs and patches are scheduled to arrive. For example, SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 SP8 is supposed to arrive in week 7 of 2020.
It will be the first release of BI 4.2 that does not sport new features and will only deliver bug fixes and additional platform support (browsers, databases, operating systems, etc.). If you haven’t patched in a while, BI 4.2 SP8 should be a safe place to hang out while you wait for SAP BI 4.3 (currently in beta) to become generally available (GA).
But which week is the current week of the year? Your database has functions that can help.
For Microsoft SQL Server:
SELECT datepart(week, getdate())
For Oracle:
SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'IW') FROM DUAL (ISO week)
SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'WW') FROM DUAL (starts on January 1)
According to Wikipedia, ISO Weeks ‘IW’ “start with Monday. Each week’s year is the Gregorian year in which the Thursday falls.” So for 2020, the ISO week started on Monday, December 30, 2019 while the standard week ‘WW’ started on Wednesday, January 1, 2020.
For SAP HANA:
SELECT WEEK(CURRENT_DATE) FROM dummy
According to my databases, we are in week 3 of the year, so four more weeks to go before we can download the next patch release of the SAP BI platform.
