You run EXPLAIN PLAN FOR and get no result set back. Where did the plan go?

SAP HANA SQLScript · Testing, Debugging & Performance Analysis

You run EXPLAIN PLAN FOR <query> and get no result set back. Where did the plan go?

Answer locked. Get the free KnowCard app to reveal it — plus spaced-repetition review so it actually sticks.

This is one card from the KnowCard library — thousands more across SAP, Linux, Python and more. In the app you get the answer, AI explanations, and cards that come back right before you would forget them. Free to start on iOS, Android or the web.

More in Testing, Debugging & Performance Analysis

SQLScript has no test-driven-development framework. What is the standard best-practice pattern for repeatable tests in the SQL console?

Your AMDP debugger just won't stop at the breakpoint in a SAP BW/4HANA transformation routine. What's the most likely cause?

You set an AMDP breakpoint and its circle is blue, not green. Will execution stop there yet?

You measure a procedure's timing while stepping through it in the AMDP debugger. Can you trust those numbers as production performance?

Same join query, run two ways: an explicit list of 6 columns vs SELECT *. Which is faster on HANA's column store, and roughly by how much?

A HANA plan operator has the prefix BW. Which engine ran it — and why do these prefixes matter for performance?

Start learning today

Free to start — download the app or use it in your browser.