What is the difference between reconciliation and validation?
Reconciliation focuses on comparing data values or totals. Validation is broader and can include schema, permissions, jobs, applications, and operational checks.
Data reconciliation compares source and target data to find mismatches after SQL Server sync or migration work. Learn how SQL Cockpit relates.
Data reconciliation checks whether source and target data match after movement, synchronisation, reporting, migration, or transformation work.
Reconciliation focuses on comparing data values or totals. Validation is broader and can include schema, permissions, jobs, applications, and operational checks.
Common checks include row counts, checksums, totals, key comparisons, sampled rows, duplicate detection, and exception reporting.
SQL Cockpit connects reconciliation evidence to synchronisation, migration, table context, and operational visibility.