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yogananda
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Dear All ,


 

You can use below HANA SQL System view to get the list of system limitation of your SAP HANA database tenant.

This system limitation values is important and need to take into consideration for HANA database administration. Please be noted that the values might differ depending on the hardware and software configuration your system uses.

M_SYSTEM_LIMITS


It will provide you details about

  •  Database Limitation

  •  Schema Limitations

  •  Tables and View Limitation

  •  Indexes and Constraints

  •  SQL

  •  SQL Script


 

Reference output from the executed command.



SELECT * FROM M_SYSTEM_LIMITS;

























































































































































































































































































Limitation Area



Limit



M_SYSTEM_LIMITS view name for the limitation



Database size limit



Row Store: 1,945 GB


Column Store: Dependent on size of physical memory



MAXIMUM_SIZE_OF_ROW_STORE



Number of locks



Unlimited for record locks,


16,383 for table locks



MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_TABLE_LOCKS



Number of sessions



65,536



MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_SESSIONS



Schema Limitations



Number of schemas per SAP HANA instance



Maximum value of BIGINT data type





Identifier length



127 characters



MAXIMUM_LENGTH_OF_IDENTIFIER



Length of an alias name



128 characters



MAXIMUM_LENGTH_OF_ALIAS_NAME



Table name length



Same as Identifier length



MAXIMUM_LENGTH_OF_IDENTIFIER



Column name length



Same as Identifier length



MAXIMUM_LENGTH_OF_IDENTIFIER



Length of a string literal



8 MB



MAXIMUM_LENGTH_OF_STRING_LITERAL



Number of hex characters in a binary literal



8,192 Bytes



MAXIMUM_LENGTH_OF_BINARY_LITERAL



Tables and View Limitations



Number of columns in a table



64,000


This limit can vary based on context, for example, in the context of virtual tables, SAP HANA may be limited by the capabilities of the remote system and the limit of the other DBMS may apply instead. In cases such as this, the limit that is met first becomes the actual limit.



MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS_IN_TABLE



Number of columns in a row table



1,000



MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS_IN_ROW_TABLE



Number of columns in a view



64,000



MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS_IN_VIEW



Number of rows in each table



Limited by storage size RS: 1,945 GB/sizeof(row),


CS: 2^31 * number of partitions





Length of a row



Limited by RS storage size (1,945 GB per index server)





Size of a non-partitioned table



Limited by RS storage size (1,945 GB per index server)





Number of partitions in a CS table



16,000



MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_PARTITIONS_IN_CSTABLE



Number of triggers per table per DML statement



1,024



MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_TRIGGERS_PER_TABLE_PER_DML



Number of records per (non-partitioned) table



2^31 (i.e. 2,147,384,648, or ~2 billion)





Indexes and Constraints



Number of indexes for a table



1,023



MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_INDEXES_IN_TABLE



Number of primary key columns in each table



16



MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS_IN_PRIMARY_KEY



Number of primary key columns in each column store table



1,000



MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS_IN_PRIMARY_KEY_IN_COLUMN_TABLE



Number of columns in an index



16



MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS_IN_INDEX



Number of columns in a UNIQUE constraint



16



MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS_IN_UNIQUE_CONSTRAINT



Size of sum of primary key, index, UNIQUE constraint



16,384 Bytes



MAXIMUM_SIZE_OF_KEY_IN_INDEX



Number of indexes in row store



256,000







SQL





Length of an SQL statement



2,147,483,648 Bytes



MAXIMUM_LENGTH_OF_SQL_STATEMENT



Depth of SQL view nesting



128



MAXIMUM_DEPTH_OF_SQL_VIEW_NESTING



Maximum depth of SQL parse tree


This limitation does not show in M_SYSTEM_LIMITS unless a limit is configured to something other than 0 (no limit) using the max_parse_tree_depth parameter in indexerver.ini.



0


0 (unlimited)



MAXIMUM_DEPTH_OF_SQL_PARSE_TREE



Maximum depth of joins in a statement.


This limitation does not show in M_SYSTEM_LIMITS unless a limit is configured to something other than 0 (no limit) using the max_join_depth parameter in indexerver.ini.



0



MAXIMUM_DEPTH_OF_JOINS



Number of columns in an ORDER BY



65,535



MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS_IN_ORDER_BY



Number of columns in a GROUP BY



65,535



MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS_IN_GROUP_BY



Number of elements in IN predicates



65,535



MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS_IN_IN_PREDICATE



Number of elements in SELECT clause



65,535



MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_OUTPUT_COLUMNS_IN_STATEMENT



Number of tables in a statement.


This limitation does not show in M_SYSTEM_LIMITS unless a limit is configured to something other than 0 (no limit) using the max_table_count_in_statement parameter in indexerver.ini.



0



MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_TABLES_IN_STATEMENT





LOB Limitations







Maximum size of an in-memory LOB for a column store table



1,073,741,821 bytes



MAXIMUM_SIZE_OF_MEMORY_LOB_IN_COLUMN_STORE



Maximum size of an in-memory LOB for a row store table



2,147,463,647 bytes



MAXIMUM_SIZE_OF_MEMORY_LOB_IN_ROW_STORE



Maximum size of a packed LOB



1,013,760 bytes



MAXIMUM_SIZE_OF_PACKED_LOB



Maximum size of a LOB on disk



4,294,967,295 bytes



MAXIMUM_SIZE_OF_DISK_LOB



Procedures





Size of all stored procedures



1,945 GB



MAXIMUM_SIZE_OF_ALL_STORED_PROCEDURES



Size of a procedure definition


2 GB



MAXIMUM_SIZE_OF_PROCEDURE_DEFINITION



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