Validating 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.

Context

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

Procedure

Start BRGUI or BRTOOLS.
Choose Database check and verification Validation of database structure

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.

To start processing with the selected options, choose Continue.
Check the results in the BRCONNECT logs.
- The summary log conn<DBSID>.log displays 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 Profiles and Logs with BR*Tools.