const char *

Parameters needed to connect to the database.

They take the form of connection strings, such as the following: "UID=DBA;PWD=sql;DBF=demo.db".

The database server would be started by the connection string START parameter. For example: "START=c:\SQLAny12\bin32\dbeng12.exe".

A full example connection string including the START parameter: "UID=DBA;PWD=sql;DBF=demo.db;START=c:\SQLAny12\bin32\dbeng12.exe".

MSG_CALLBACK

Address of an error message callback routine or NULL.

a_bit_field

Set TRUE to validate indexes.

The tables field points to a list of indexes. Set TRUE by dbvalid -i option. Set FALSE by dbvalid -t option.

MSG_CALLBACK

Address of an information message callback routine or NULL.

a_bit_field

Set TRUE to operate without printing messages.

Set TRUE by dbvalid -q option.

MSG_CALLBACK

Address of a status message callback routine or NULL.

p_name

Pointer to a linked list of table names or index names (when the index field is set TRUE).

This is set by the dbvalid object-name-list argument.

char

The type of validation to perform.

One of VALIDATE_NORMAL, VALIDATE_EXPRESS, VALIDATE_CHECKSUM, etc. See Validation enumeration.

unsigned short

DBTools version number (DB_TOOLS_VERSION_NUMBER).