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.