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Validate Subscription

Use the Validate Subscription dialog box to specify that a subscription to a merge publication should be validated the next time the Merge Agent for the subscription runs. The results of validation are displayed in Replication Monitor. For more information, see How to: Validate Data at the Subscriber (SQL Server Management Studio).

It is also possible to validate all subscriptions to a merge publication by right-clicking a publication in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and clicking Validate All Subscriptions.

Options

  • Date of the last attempted validation
    The date of the last Merge Agent session that included subscription validation, whether or not that validation was successful.
  • Date of the last successful validation
    The date of the last Merge Agent session that included a successful subscription validation.
  • Validate this subscription
    Select to validate the subscription.
  • Options
    Click to access the Subscription Validation Options dialog box, which allows you to specify whether to use row count validation or binary checksum validation.

See Also

Other Resources

Validating Replicated Data

Help and Information

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