SAP HANA SQLScript · SAP HANA for SQLScript Developers

If HANA keeps data in RAM and RAM is wiped on power loss, how does a restart recover committed data?

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Coming from a classic RDBMS, why is pre-building secondary indexes, aggregate tables and materialized views usually the wrong instinct on HANA?

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