The SAP HANA database explorer is the primary tool within the SAP BTP cockpit used for in-depth database administration and development tasks. It provides direct access to the database's diagnostic files, allowing an administrator to view, download, and analyze various trace files (e.g., index server, compile server traces) to diagnose system-level errors.

The SQL trace analyzer is a specialized feature within the SAP HANA database explorer. It is specifically designed to parse and analyze SQL trace files (.sqltrace), providing detailed insights into the performance and execution plans of SQL statements, which is crucial for diagnosing application-level performance errors.

B. SAP HANA Cloud Central: This tool is used for the high-level lifecycle management of SAP HANA Cloud instances, such as provisioning, starting, stopping, and monitoring overall status, not for detailed file-level diagnostics.

D. Full system information dump: This is a collection of diagnostic files and system information (the data itself), which is generated for troubleshooting. It is not a tool used to perform the analysis.

1. SAP HANA Cloud Administration Guide

"Monitoring and Administration Tools": This guide explicitly lists the SAP HANA database explorer as a key tool for database administration. It states

"You can use the SAP HANA database explorer to... Access diagnosis files for troubleshooting purposes." This directly supports the use of the database explorer for analyzing trace files.

2. SAP HANA Cloud Administration Guide

"Analyzing Traces": This section details the process of trace analysis. It specifies

"You can analyze SQL traces... in the SQL trace analyzer

which is part of the SAP HANA database explorer." This confirms the SQL trace analyzer as a specific tool for this purpose.

3. SAP HANA Cloud Administration Guide

"SAP HANA Cloud Central": The documentation describes this tool's purpose as being the "central entry point for creating and managing SAP HANA Cloud instances

" confirming it is for lifecycle management

not in-depth analysis.

4. SAP HANA Cloud Administration Guide

"Collecting Diagnosis Information": This section describes how to "collect all diagnosis information and logs... into a single compressed file (full system information dump)." This clarifies that the dump is the output of a collection process

not an analysis tool.