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SAP HANA Database Views Cheat Sheet
Dominik Fiedler • 7. August 2026
SAP HANA Monitoring Views Cheat Sheet
Hey everyone! If you spend your day writing SQL queries or troubleshooting performance in SAP HANA, you know how frustrating it is to constantly look up system view names.
System views give you real-time insights into your database health, memory usage, and performance without needing complex monitoring tools. They are the fastest way to see exactly what is happening under the hood.
To save ourselfs and ( you 😉 ) some time, we put together a quick-reference cheat sheet of the most useful HANA database views.
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The topic of HANA performance is one of the most discussed topics in nearly every single SAP project we are involved. Performance has always been an important aspect in general; however, particularly when switching databases or application releases - whether moving from anyDB to HANA or, more specifically, from ERP on
There are multiple DMO scenarios and use cases. We heard of many confusions and mixed up statements which we want to order:
SUM can not only update software components, but can also execute a database migration (for ABAP based systems)
DMO used to be heterogeneous (change of DB). Now you can use DMO with system move (also on-prem to target on-prem) to migrate and convert ECC on HANA to S/4 or just update/upgrade S/4 and move it to another location like other DC or other instance in one step.
The DMOVE2S4 is just to move and convert to the cloud in one step. This includes also anyDB source systems and downtime-optimization techniques (doDMO and doC).
Please notice that when you want to run HANA 2.0 SPS07, you need defined OS levels. As you can see RHEL7 and SLES12 are not certified for SPS07. The SPS07 release of HANA is the basis for the S/4HANA release 2023 which is my recommended go-to release for the next years. Keep in mind that you have to go to SPS07 when you are running SPS06 because it will run out of maintenance end of 2023.
KVM as alternative with low TCO
An inverted individual index is a special type of SAP HANA index which can only cover unique indexes. This includes all primary key structures. Unlike traditional column store indexes on more than one column (inverted value, inverted hash) an inverted individual index (Inv Idv Idx) doesn't need a dedicated concat.
This blog presents the results of a customer case which can be used as a reference for other implementations
SAP HANA systems may experience high swap usage, hangs, or performance issues when THP (Transparent Huge Pages) is enabled with "madvise". This occurs on multi-NUMA node systems where one or more NUMA nodes are close to full memory usage while others have plenty of free memory, and counters for THP allocations, direct
Transparent Huge Pages (THP) with madvise can trigger high swap usage, performance issues, or even system hangs on multi-NUMA systems.
With SPS06 and even stronger in SPS07 the HEX engine was pushed to be used more often. This results on the one hand side in easy scenario to perfect results with lower memory and CPU consumption ending up in faster response times. But in scenarios with FAE (for all entries) together with FDA (fast data access), it can result in bad performance. After some customers upgraded their first systems to SPS07 I recommended to wait for Rev. 73/74. But some started early with Rev. 71/72 and we had to troubleshoot many statement. If you have similar performance issues after the upgrade to SPS07 feel free to contact us! Our current recommendation is to use Rev. 74 with some workarounds. The performance degradation is extreme in systems like EWM and BW with high analytical workload.