# SAP HANA SQL Error Codes: Meaning, Cause and First Fix

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## Short answer

Searchable table of common SAP HANA 2.0 SQL error codes with the error text, typical cause, the view or trace to check first and the fix.

## Category

sap

## Erp

SAP HANA

## Audience

- SAP HANA DBA
- SAP Basis administrator
- SQL developer

## Tool

**Kind:** worksheet

**Mode:** reference

**Columns:**

#### Code

**Key:** code

**Type:** text

#### Error text

**Key:** text

**Type:** text

#### Typical cause

**Key:** cause

**Type:** text

#### First diagnostic

**Key:** diag

**Type:** text

#### Fix

**Key:** fix

**Type:** text

**Rows:**

#### Statement or service hit the allocation limit or statement_memory_limit

**Code:** 4

**Text:** Cannot allocate enough memory

**Diag:** OOM trace (*.rtedump.*.oom.trc) in the trace directory; M_SERVICE_MEMORY; M_EXPENSIVE_STATEMENTS

**Fix:** Fix the statement (filters, joins), reduce memory consumers, or adjust limits after sizing review

#### SQL feature or syntax not available for this object type or revision

**Code:** 7

**Text:** Feature not supported

**Diag:** SQL reference for your SPS

**Fix:** Rewrite the statement or check revision support

#### Wrong user or password, locked user, or failed SSO

**Code:** 10

**Text:** Authentication failed

**Diag:** M_CONNECTIONS; USERS view (USER_DEACTIVATED, INVALID_CONNECT_ATTEMPTS)

**Fix:** Check credentials and user status; reset or unlock the user

#### A follow-on error rolled back the transaction

**Code:** 129

**Text:** Transaction rolled back by an internal error

**Diag:** The preceding error in the indexserver trace

**Fix:** Fix the underlying error shown before it

#### Waited longer than the lock wait timeout for a lock held by another transaction

**Code:** 131

**Text:** Transaction rolled back by lock wait timeout

**Diag:** M_BLOCKED_TRANSACTIONS; M_TRANSACTIONS for the lock owner

**Fix:** Find and fix the long-holding transaction; shorten transactions and commit sooner

#### Two transactions waited for each other's locks

**Code:** 133

**Text:** Transaction rolled back by detected deadlock

**Diag:** Indexserver trace deadlock information

**Fix:** Access tables and rows in a consistent order; retry logic in the application

#### Statement cancelled by a user, client timeout or ALTER SYSTEM CANCEL SESSION

**Code:** 139

**Text:** Current operation cancelled by request and transaction rolled back

**Diag:** Who cancelled: client logs, M_CONNECTIONS

**Fix:** Find why it ran so long (plan cache, expensive statements)

#### SELECT FOR UPDATE NOWAIT or lock statement found the row or table locked

**Code:** 146

**Text:** Resource busy and NOWAIT specified

**Diag:** M_BLOCKED_TRANSACTIONS

**Fix:** Retry later or remove NOWAIT

#### Invalid SQL, often reserved words or quotes

**Code:** 257

**Text:** SQL syntax error

**Diag:** Position given in the error message

**Fix:** Correct the syntax; quote reserved identifiers with double quotes

#### User lacks the object, schema, system or analytic privilege

**Code:** 258

**Text:** Insufficient privilege

**Diag:** Error text names the missing privilege in newer revisions; EFFECTIVE_PRIVILEGES view; system procedure GET_INSUFFICIENT_PRIVILEGE_ERROR_DETAILS

**Fix:** Grant the specific privilege or role, not broad schema rights

#### Table does not exist in the current schema or name case mismatch

**Code:** 259

**Text:** Invalid table name

**Diag:** TABLES view; CURRENT_SCHEMA

**Fix:** Qualify with schema; use correct case in double quotes

#### Column misspelled, wrong case or not in that table

**Code:** 260

**Text:** Invalid column name

**Diag:** TABLE_COLUMNS view

**Fix:** Correct the column name or alias

#### Index does not exist

**Code:** 261

**Text:** Invalid index name

**Diag:** INDEXES view

**Fix:** Correct the name or create the index

#### Same column name in more than one joined table without alias

**Code:** 268

**Text:** Column ambiguously defined

**Diag:** Statement joins

**Fix:** Prefix columns with table aliases

#### Value longer than the column length

**Code:** 274

**Text:** Inserted value too large for column

**Diag:** TABLE_COLUMNS LENGTH

**Fix:** Truncate or validate input, or enlarge the column

#### NOT NULL column received NULL

**Code:** 287

**Text:** Cannot insert NULL or update to NULL

**Diag:** TABLE_COLUMNS IS_NULLABLE

**Fix:** Supply a value or a default

#### CREATE TABLE for a name that already exists

**Code:** 288

**Text:** Cannot use duplicate table name

**Diag:** TABLES view

**Fix:** Drop, rename or use a different name

#### Insert or update duplicates a primary key or unique index

**Code:** 301

**Text:** Unique constraint violated

**Diag:** Error names the index; check existing rows

**Fix:** Fix the data or use UPSERT where appropriate

#### Divisor evaluated to 0 in an expression

**Code:** 304

**Text:** Division by zero undefined

**Diag:** The expression in the statement

**Fix:** Use NULLIF(divisor, 0) or a CASE expression

#### Scalar subquery or SELECT INTO returned several rows

**Code:** 305

**Text:** Single-row query returns more than one row

**Diag:** Run the subquery alone

**Fix:** Add filters, aggregate, or use TOP 1 with ORDER BY

#### Result exceeds the data type range or precision

**Code:** 314

**Text:** Numeric overflow

**Diag:** Data types of the expression

**Fix:** Cast to a larger type such as BIGINT or DECIMAL with more precision

#### Function or procedure does not exist in that schema

**Code:** 328

**Text:** Invalid name of function or procedure

**Diag:** FUNCTIONS and PROCEDURES views

**Fix:** Qualify the schema or create the object

#### String that is not a number converted to a numeric type

**Code:** 339

**Text:** Invalid number

**Diag:** Source column values

**Fix:** Clean data or use a safe conversion with CASE checks

#### Prepared statement executed with missing parameter values

**Code:** 340

**Text:** Not all variables bound

**Diag:** Client code binding parameters

**Fix:** Bind every ? parameter before execute

#### Schema does not exist or user cannot see it

**Code:** 362

**Text:** Invalid schema name

**Diag:** SCHEMAS view

**Fix:** Correct the schema or grant access

#### Identifier name not valid, often unquoted special characters

**Code:** 383

**Text:** Invalid identifier

**Diag:** Statement text

**Fix:** Quote identifiers with double quotes

#### Initial or reset password must be changed at first logon

**Code:** 414

**Text:** User is forced to change password

**Diag:** USERS view PASSWORD_CHANGE_NEEDED

**Fix:** Log on interactively and change it, or disable the requirement for technical users (ALTER USER ... DISABLE PASSWORD LIFETIME)

#### User deactivated, often after too many failed logons

**Code:** 416

**Text:** User is deactivated

**Diag:** USERS view USER_DEACTIVATED, INVALID_CONNECT_ATTEMPTS

**Fix:** ALTER USER <user> ACTIVATE USER NOW after fixing the client that sent the wrong password

#### Statement exceeded a configured statement or client timeout

**Code:** 613

**Text:** Execution aborted by timeout

**Diag:** Client timeout settings; M_EXPENSIVE_STATEMENTS

**Fix:** Tune the statement or raise the timeout deliberately

#### Generic column store engine error; the detail text after it matters

**Code:** 2048

**Text:** Column store error

**Diag:** Full error text and indexserver trace

**Fix:** Act on the detail (for example table not loaded, merge or memory issue)

**Notes:** Codes and texts are those returned by SAP HANA 2.0 SQL. The full list is in the SQL Error Codes page of the SAP HANA SQL Reference, and also in system view M_ERROR_CODES (columns CODE, CODE_STRING, DESCRIPTION) in your own database. Query it to confirm any code: SELECT * FROM M_ERROR_CODES WHERE CODE = 258.

## Content

**Intro:** This reference lists common SAP HANA 2.0 SQL error codes, from 4 (cannot allocate enough memory) through lock and deadlock rollbacks to privilege, syntax and data errors, with the first diagnostic and fix for each. Developers and DBAs can filter by code or by text.

**Sections:**

#### How to use it

**Body:** Take the numeric code from the error, for example SQL error 131 or SAP DBTech JDBC: [258], and filter the table. The first diagnostic column names the system view or trace to open. To get the exact text for any code on your own revision, query M_ERROR_CODES, which lists every code with its CODE_STRING and DESCRIPTION; that view is the authoritative source for your system and covers codes not listed here. Codes in the 100s are mostly transaction and lock errors, 250 to 450 are SQL, object and user errors, and higher codes come from specific engines such as the column store (2048).

#### Out of memory (error 4) and OOM dumps

**Body:** Error 4 means the statement or service could not get memory within its limit. HANA writes an OOM trace file in the trace directory, named like indexserver_<host>.<port>.rtedump.<timestamp>.oom.trc, which shows the memory state, the allocators and the statement that failed. Read the top allocators and the failing statement first. If one statement regularly runs out, statement_memory_limit (section memorymanager in global.ini) can cap a single statement so that it fails instead of the whole service; check its current value in M_INIFILE_CONTENTS. If many statements fail, the system is undersized or a memory consumer such as a large delta store or cache needs attention.

#### Worked example: error 131 every morning

**Body:** A batch load fails at 07:10 with error 131, transaction rolled back by lock wait timeout. At 07:05 a query on M_BLOCKED_TRANSACTIONS during the next run shows the load blocked on table ZSALES_STAGE, and LOCK_OWNER_TRANSACTION_ID points to a connection in M_CONNECTIONS from a reporting tool that started an update and never committed. The fix is in the tool (commit or use autocommit for that step), not in raising the lock wait timeout. Raising the timeout only makes the load wait longer before it fails.

#### Common mistakes

**Body:** Error 258 is often solved by granting a whole schema or a powerful system privilege; grant the specific object privilege or role instead, and use the insufficient privilege details the system provides. Division by zero (304) is best handled in SQL with NULLIF. Errors 259 and 260 are frequently case problems: unquoted names are converted to upper case, quoted names are not. And 129 is never the real error: look for what happened just before it.

**Cta:** If you want your team to paste a HANA error and get the likely cause from your own system views, answered privately on your servers, we can set that up.

**Faq:**

#### What is SAP HANA error code 4?

**Answer:** Error 4 is cannot allocate enough memory. A statement or service reached its allocation limit or the statement memory limit. Check the OOM trace file in the trace directory, M_SERVICE_MEMORY and expensive statements, then fix the statement or review sizing before raising limits.

#### How do I fix the SAP HANA division by zero error?

**Answer:** Error 304, division by zero undefined, comes from an expression whose divisor is 0. Wrap the divisor with NULLIF(divisor, 0) so the result becomes NULL, or use a CASE expression to return 0 or another value when the divisor is zero.

#### Where can I find the full list of SAP HANA error codes?

**Answer:** In the SQL Error Codes section of the SAP HANA SQL Reference on help.sap.com, and directly in your database through the system view M_ERROR_CODES, which returns CODE, CODE_STRING and DESCRIPTION for every code known to your revision.

#### What does SAP HANA error 258 insufficient privilege mean?

**Answer:** The user lacks an object, schema, system or analytic privilege needed by the statement. Newer revisions add details about the missing privilege and offer a procedure to retrieve them. Grant the specific privilege or a role that contains it rather than broad rights.

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