SAP HANA 2.0 Administration · Administration Tools: Cockpit, Studio & Command Line

Your backup catalog is lost and you must work out which data/log backups a recovery needs. Which tool do you run, and how does it differ from hdbbackupcheck?

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What is the most common silent failure of the SAP HANA cockpit monitoring (technical) user, and what minimal privileges does it actually need?

You need to browse the catalog, run ad-hoc SQL across multiple connections, and open trace files in one place. Which HANA tool fits, and what is its hard prerequisite?

The HANA instance is up at the process level but no longer answers SQL. Which tool do you reach for, and why does it work when the others don't?

A colleague has the Cockpit User Administrator role and asks why they can't register a new database. What is the role boundary they're hitting?

Since SAP HANA 2.0, which tool is SAP's recommended default for landscape-wide administration, and how can it be deployed?

In hdbsql/the SQL console, statements are case-insensitive — so what breaks if you create an object with double quotes and later reference it without them?

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