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 [SAP HANA Cloud](https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/hana.html) is supported as the CAP standard database and recommended for productive use with full support for schema evolution and multitenancy.
 
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 CAP isn't validated with other variants of SAP HANA, like "SAP HANA Database as a Service" or "SAP HANA (on premise)".
 
+The database services are validated against the latest maintained QRC version of SAP HANA Cloud. It's not guaranteed that outdated versions are fully functional with the latest database services.
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+[See the official SAP HANA Cloud documentation for their maintenance strategy.](https://help.sap.com/docs/HANA_CLOUD_CN/1f64fe39189f4176bf659e737d62222a/6ced4d164e234b74aa9bea82435ce9a8.html){.learn-more}
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 ## Setup & Configuration
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 ## Running `cds build`
 
 Deployment to SAP HANA is done via the [SAP HANA Deployment Infrastructure (HDI)](https://help.sap.com/docs/hana-cloud-database/sap-hana-cloud-sap-hana-database-developer-guide-for-cloud-foundry-multitarget-applications-sap-business-app-studio/sap-hdi-deployer?) which in turn requires running `cds build` to generate all the deployable HDI artifacts. For example, run this in [cap/samples/bookshop](https://github.com/SAP-samples/cloud-cap-samples/tree/main/bookshop):