If enforced license key is installed the system will be locked if memory consumption of HANA exceeds the license amount of memory plus some tolerance.

If an unenforced license key is installed, the operation of SAP HANA is not affected if its memory consumption exceeds the licensed amount of memory. There are two types of permanent license key available for SAP HANA During this time, we can request and install a new permanent license key again. If it is expires, a temporary license key valid for 28 days is automatically installed. Note: Before a permanent license key expires, we should request and apply a new permanent license key. Furthermore they specify the amount of memory licensed to the target SAP HANA installation. It has to be requested on the SAP Service Marketplace under Keys & Requests and applied to the individual SAP HANA database. The permanent license keys are valid until the predefined expiration date. During this period we should request in service market place and apply permanent license key. It is valid for 90 days from installation date. The temporary license keys are automatically installed with a new SAP HANA database installation. The SAP HANA database supports two kinds of license key. We can install and delete the license keys using the SAP HANA Studio, SAP HANA HDBSQL command line tool and HANA SQL Query Editor. License keys are required to use SAP HANA Database.

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