Introducing the Database Administration Tools

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to locate the User Management Tools.

Starting the Database Administration Tools

In this lesson, you'll learn where to find the administration tools that can be used to perform the user management tasks. The SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) provides the following tools:

  • SAP HANA Cloud Central with the integrated SAP HANA cockpit
  • SAP HANA cockpit
  • SAP HANA database explorer - SQL console

All three tools allow you to perform user management for SAP HANA Cloud.

Opening SAP HANA Cloud Central

SAP HANA Cloud Central enables you to administer and monitor SAP HANA Cloud instances. You need to be assigned to the SAP HANA Cloud Administrator role collection to manage SAP HANA Cloud instances in SAP HANA Cloud Central. In your SAP BTP Cockpit, use the path Global account → Subaccount → Services → Instances and Subscriptions → SAP HANA Cloud to open the SAP HANA Cloud Central application.

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Opening SAP HANA Cockpit

As a user administrator of the SAP HANA Cloud database, you need to use the SAP HANA cockpit to administer the SAP HANA Cloud databases deployed in the SAP Business Technology Platform.

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Opening SAP HANA Database Explorer

As a user administrator, you often need to directly work with tables, schemata, and so on. For this, the SAP HANA Cloud database provides the SAP HANA database explorer.

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Summary

In this lesson, you learned how to start SAP HANA Cloud Central, SAP HANA cockpit and SAP HANA database explorer from the SAP BTP Cockpit.

Further Reading

For further reading about how to use SAP HANA cockpit and SAP HANA database explorer, see the following sites:

SAP HANA Cloud:SAP HANA Database:

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