Procedure documentation Checking the Logical Consistency of the Volumes Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

You check the consistency of the internal data structures of the current Structure linkdatabase instance. If there are serious inconsistencies, the database instance must be recovered in the same way as after a disk failure (Recovery).

If you execute this command in the ADMIN Structure linkoperational state, free storage pages wrongly recorded as used following an abnormal termination of database operation are released to the free space management.

Recommendation

We recommend that you execute this function before each Structure linkfull data backup.

Prerequisites

The database instance is the ONLINE or the ADMIN operational state.

Procedure

Choose Instance ® Check ® Database Structures and then DatabaseStructures ® Execute to start the logical consistency check.

Result

The information supplied by the database kernel is written to the Database Errors file. To view the contents of the file, choose Instance ® Check ® Diagnosis Files. Select the Database Errors file and choose DiagnosisFiles ® View.