Validating the Database Structure with BR*Tools 

Use

You can use BR*Tools for Oracle to validate the database structure with BR*Tools.

Prerequisites

·        Make sure you have set the necessary BRCONNECT parameters in the initialization profile init<DBSID>.sap, because BRTOOLS uses these when it calls BRCONNECT.

·        The database must be open.

Procedure

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       1.      Start BRGUI or BRTOOLS.

       2.      Choose Database check and verification → Validation of database structure

       3.      Set the required options:

Menu Entry	Equivalent BRCONNECT Command Option
BRCONNECT profile (profile)	-p|-profile
Database user/password (user)	-u|-user
Validate mode (validate)	-f stats -v|-validate
Database owner for validate (owner)	-f stats -o|-owner
Exclude from validate (exclude)	-f stats -e|-exclude
Tables for validate (table)	-f stats -t|-table
Confirmation mode (confirm)	-c|-confirm
Query mode (query)	-q|-query
Parallel degree (parallel)	-f stats -p|-parallel
Time limit (limit)	-f stats -l|-limit
Force time limit (force)	-f stats -f|-force limit
Extended output (output)	-o|-output
Message language (language)	-l|-language
BRCONNECT command line (command)	This shows you the BRCONNECT -f stats -v|-validate command that is to be executed using the current settings.

       4.      To start processing with the selected options, choose Continue.

       5.      Check the results in the BRCONNECT logs.

¡        The summary log conn<DBSID>.logdisplays the return code.

¡        The detail log  c<encoded timestamp>.vst displays the progress.

For more information on how to view the logs with BR*Tools, see Showing Logs with BR*Tools.