The purpose of the consistency check is to determine inconsistencies in your system.The function is also called automatically whenever you start your system or start an application server.
The installation check checks whether:
· The release number in an SAP kernel matches the release number stored in the database system
· The character set specified in the SAP kernel matches the character set specified in the database system
· critical structure definitions that are defined in both the data dictionary and the SAP kernel are identical. The structures that are checked include SYST, T100, TSTC, TDCT, TFDIR, and others.
Choose Tools ® Administration ® Administration ® Installation check or enter the transaction code sick (SAP Initial Consistency ChecK).