SAP HANA 2.0 Administration · Performance Analysis: SQL Tuning & Plan Analysis

Among the PlanViz sub-tabs (Timeline, Operator List, Tables Used, Performance Trace, Network), which one is useless on a single-node system, and what does it show?

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