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 Validate Data at the Subscriber.
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.