SAP HANA 2.0 Administration · Monitoring, Alerts & Troubleshooting

You want to read a trace file's contents via SQL rather than logging onto the OS. M_TRACEFILES or M_TRACEFILE_CONTENTS — which gives you the text, and what does the other give you?

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