Validating the Catalog Store

Fast Catalog Store validation A new type of validation check has been added that reduces the amount of time it takes to validate a Catalog Store. This option is of particular interest to people who need to validate databases with a large Catalog Store with a small cache size. Affected tools include the sa_validate system procedure and the Validation utility (dbvalid).

To use this feature on databases created before this release, you must upgrade the database.

The Validation utility gives more detailed return codes The Validation utility for the Catalog Store (dbvalid) gives more specific return codes to indicate the reason a failure occurs.