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SAP HANA Logging Behavior: What Really Happens During a Production Crash
It’s 2:13 AM. Your SAP application suddenly freezes. End users can’t post transactions. SAP HANA Studio shows the database restarting. Phone calls start coming in.
“Did we lose data?”
In real production environments, this question does not depend on luck. It depends entirely on how SAP HANA logging behavior works behind the scenes.
This article explains SAP HANA logging not as documentation theory, but as it behaves during real crashes, restarts, and recovery situations.