What action should you take when the data area in an SAP HANA database is running out of space?

Creating a new database volume is a proactive measure that can help manage and prevent running out of space in an SAP HANA database environment. By adding a new volume, you can effectively expand the available storage capacity for your database, allowing it to accommodate more data and ensuring optimal performance. This approach is particularly suitable when the database is growing rapidly or when you anticipate future data growth.

It is essential to consider that deleting unused tables, increasing memory allocation, or performing a database export may address space issues to some extent but do not directly resolve the underlying problem of storage capacity. Deleting tables may lead to loss of valuable information, increasing memory allocation consults to a system's RAM rather than its disk storage, and performing exports does not eliminate space issues but can help with data backup or migration needs. Therefore, creating a new database volume is the most effective and sustainable solution in maintaining sufficient space for an SAP HANA database.