Backing Up Table Content in the SAP HANA Repository 1.0

This section deals with the backup of table content in the SAP HANA repository 1.0.

Prerequisites

You have applied SAP Note 2642660 .
The SUM procedure has reached REQ_USER_ROLLOVER_FINAL.

Context

The ZDO of SUM offers the option to reset native SAP HANA database objects. For this purpose, back up the content of tables in the SAP HANA repository 1.0, also known as _SYS-BIC.

Immediately after the phase REQ_USER_ROLLOVER_FINAL is reached, proceed as follows to back up your tables content:

Procedure

Open the SAP HANA Studio and log in with the SYSTEM user to the system on the database and the tenant where you want to export the table data.
Open the SQL console in the database schema _SYS_BIC.
To get the list of all table names, enter the following statement:

select TABLE_NAME from tables where SCHEMA_NAME='_SYS_BIC' and is_user_defined_type='FALSE';
For each table, export the data to a specific folder by entering the following statement:

export <table_name> as csv into '<folder_name>' with replace;