Interactive walkthroughs
These interactive walkthroughs guide you through common Validata workflows, from building your first validation to using advanced validation methods.
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Building and running your first validation
This walkthrough covers the steps described in Build your first validation. It walks through the end-to-end validation workflow: creating your first validation, running it, analyzing the report, and reviewing the reconciliation scripts.
Creating a validation using interval validation
This walkthrough shows how to create a validation using the Interval Validation method. Interval Validation aligns your validations with your replication cadence or performs incremental checks that catch discrepancies sooner, without waiting for full maintenance-window checks. For example, you can run a validation every 2 hours to compare data updated in the previous 2 hours. This method requires the presence of a timestamp or datetime column in both the source and target tables.
Creating a validation using custom validation
This walkthrough shows how to create a validation using the Custom Validation method. Custom Validation enables you to build specialized validations by extracting data from the source and target tables using SQL queries. Validata then compares the results of these queries. Custom Validation is available only for comparing a singleton validation pair (using Quick Start). Example use cases include comparing data transformed using a SQL function or comparing data for append-mode replication.