SAP HANA Database Essentials for Platform Teams

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SAP HANA daily operations card

• One system database (administration) + tenant databases (business data); patch and plan per system.
• Column store is the default; changes land in the delta and are merged into main storage.
• Savepoint every 5 minutes by default; the redo log is written at every commit.
• Restart = last savepoint + redo replay. Committed work survives a crash.
• Keep log_mode normal and log backups succeeding wherever data matters.
• Backups: complete, differential, incremental, log; recovery is always a whole tenant.
• Recovery targets: most recent state, point in time, specific data backup.
• Daily check: used memory vs allocation limit, OOM events, CPU, log volume and backup destination, high alerts.
• Prove backups with timed restores, especially for cutover fallback.