Week 1: Basics and Tooling

Unit 1: Database Administration Tasks

Database Administration Tasks
Course overview – Introduction to SAP HANA Administration

Course Content:
▪ Week 1: Basics and Tooling
▪ Week 2: Managing the Landscape of Databases
▪ Week 3: Managing Individual Databases
▪ Week 4: Performance Analysis
▪ Week 5: Final Exam

System Exercises (optional):

▪ Some course units have hands-on system exercises
▪ To complete the exercises:
– Install your own copy of SAP HANA cockpit
– Download and install SAP HANA, express edition
(a working copy of SAP HANA cockpit comes with it)

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Database Administration Tasks
Deepen your knowledge

▪ Learning Journey: SAP HANA Administration & Operations

▪ HA200 SAP HANA 2.0 Installation and Administration
▪ HA215 SAP HANA – Monitoring & Performance Tuning
▪ HA240 Authorization, Security and Scenarios
▪ HA250 Migration to SAP HANA using DMO Migration

Get certified by SAP

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Database Administration Tasks
The database administrator is responsible for many tasks…

Optimal Management
performance tasks

Peak database Essential database

Upkeep and performance improves management tasks
business processes increase productivity Security
maintenance
and end-user and maximize system
experience efficiency
A well-maintained A secure database
database limits failures allows safe access to
and ensures applications and
acceptable levels of protects business
performance DBA information

Lifecycle Business
management continuity
Diagnosis and
resolution
Sound high availability
Keeping databases
and disaster recovery
and their components Effective database strategies guarantee
up to date reduces the monitoring and continuous database
maintenance effort troubleshooting operations
prevents or minimizes
unplanned downtime
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Database administration for SAP HANA

Optimal Management
performance tasks

Properly configure
Upkeep and Observe resources, SAP HANA
particularly memory, parameters, services, Security
maintenance
and analyze workloads alerts, and tenant
databases
SAP HANA provides a Secure the SAP HANA
comprehensive toolset database and restrict
to monitor and capabilities in
administer databases databases
DBA

Lifecycle Business
management continuity
Diagnosis and
resolution
Install and update SAP
Utilize SAP HANA
HANA components, as
In addition to backup/recovery and
well as SAP HANA-
monitoring tools, query system replication
based applications
system views and
inspect trace files

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Database monitoring

Databases Resource Utilization Performance

Aggregate System Health Memory Connections

Tenant Databases CPU Transactions

Alerts Disk Statements

Services Network Table Usage

Swap Threads

Sessions

Admission Control

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Database Administration Tasks
Database management

Tenant Databases Alerts Services System Properties

Backup and
System Licensing Users and Roles System Replication
Recovery

Execute SQL
Database Catalog Trace Files Troubleshooting
Statements

Password Policy Encryption Auditing Certificates

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Performance analysis

Provides execution details on

all SQL statements currently SQL Plan Cache
cached in the SAP HANA
database to get insights into
processed workloads Statement Hints
Workload management
Add statement hints to a SQL
allows the user to control
statement without having to
modify the actual statement Workload Management resource consumption within
SAP HANA on system/
or application code
session/statement level

Identify the root cause of Workload Analysis

performance issues on Capture the workload of a
system level by analyzing source system and replay it
threads or engine Capture & Replay on a target system
instrumentation

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Platform and application lifecycle management

Platform Lifecycle Management Application Lifecycle Management

▪ Install, update, or uninstall SAP HANA ▪ Install, update, or uninstall SAP HANA
components extended application services,
▪ Add or remove hosts and host roles advanced model (XSA) software
▪ Configure SAP HANA components and products
▪ Display application installation history

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