What are key principles of using HANA Transport Containers?

The key principle of using HANA Transport Containers revolves around the management and organization of transport requests for efficient data handling and deployment in SAP HANA environments. The import of transport requests is central to this process because it involves bringing the changes contained within the transport request into the target system. This step ensures that all the objects and changes made in the development system are accurately reflected in the production environment, thus maintaining consistency and integrity across systems.

Transport requests are bundles of changes that need to be moved between different system landscapes, and importing them is how those changes are implemented in a new environment. This process often includes data models, analytical views, and security settings that need to be correctly aligned with the overall architecture of the HANA database.

The creation of a transport container of delivery unit pertains to the organization of transport requests, but the core action that signifies the use of transport containers in practice is the import of those requests into the target system. While releasing transport requests and updates for export methods are important processes, they do not directly embody the primary principle of utilizing transport containers as it relates to their operational purpose within the HANA environment.