MKS Validate Utility

❑Validating the Micro Key Millennium Series™ Database Structures on a routine basis is important:

•Validating your database on a regular basis is very important.

✓This process will analyze the database for corruption and report the table(s) affected by it.

✓Any reported problems can then be reported to Technical Support for diagnosis, resolution and/or correction.

•It is recommended that you run this process on a machine that is not the Primary server and not the machine actually running the SQL Anywhere® Network Server.

❑Accessing the MKS Validate utility:

•It can be run on any workstation (or any of the backup servers) and may be executed from within MKMS (see the Validate Database chapter) or as a stand-alone application..

1)To access the Validate Database utility:

a)From the Backstage Menu System Select the Maintenance Menu then Select the System Administrator sub-menu, or

b)From the Quick Access Menu, Select the Maintenance Menu then Select theSystem Administrator sub-menu

▪Then, Choose the Validate Database option

2)To access the MKS Validate stand-alone utility:

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a)Locate the MKS Validate Icon (which should be installed by your System Administrator in the MKMS Folder on your computer's Desktop).

b)Confirm that the SQL Anywhere® Network Server is running.

c)Double-Click on the MKS Validate Icon to start the MKS Validate application (no Login is required because no Subscriber or related information may be viewed or modified).

❑Running the MKS Validate utility:

•Select - Click on the database name you want to Validate.

•Validate - Click the Validate button (see illustration below) to start the process.

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