Current Date Topic: Displaying Line Numbers in the SQL Editor Audience: SAP HANA Developers, Database Administrators
How to Show Line Numbers in SAP HANA Studio: A Step-by-Step Guide
Enabling line numbers in SAP HANA Studio is one of the simplest yet most effective ways to improve your development workflow. Whether you are writing complex SQLScript, debugging a stored procedure, or analyzing long database scripts, line numbers provide essential visual anchors. They allow you to pinpoint errors quickly, collaborate efficiently with teammates, and navigate thousands of lines of code without getting lost.
Troubleshooting: How to Show Line Numbers in SAP HANA Studio
If you want, I can provide a short screenshot walkthrough or the exact preference tree for your HANA Studio version (e.g., 2.0 SPS X).
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Note: This approach instantly activates line numbers for your current session, but sometimes it may reset if you clear your workspace cache. Method 2: Permanent Configuration via Preferences
For developers and database administrators working with SAP HANA, (based on Eclipse) remains a powerful, albeit legacy, integrated development environment. Whether you are writing complex SQLScript, debugging stored procedures, or reviewing execution logs, one small feature dramatically improves your efficiency: line numbers .
SAP HANA Studio is an Eclipse-based development environment used to develop artifacts, manage databases, and write SQLScript or AMDP (ABAP Managed Database Procedures). When working with complex, multi-line SQL queries, stored procedures, or calculation views, navigating the code without visual anchors can be incredibly challenging.
On : Click on SAP HANA Studio in the top menu bar, then select Preferences . Navigate to Text Editors: