Maximum Errors

There are two type of error detected by the Data Integrity Checker (DICE):

• A fatal error is identified if the Database (DB) is corrupted.

• A non-fatal error (a warning) is identified if DICE encounters a fault with references to external DBs.

If the user sets Maximum errors to 1, checking stops when the first fatal error is encountered; that is, DICE simply determines whether or not the DB is corrupt.

Otherwise DICE continues checking the whole DB or file, listing all non-fatal and fatal errors until the Maximum fatal errors count or Maximum warnings count is exceeded, when the checking of that DB is abandoned. Occasionally DICE will stop before processing the whole DB. This will happen when the error is so severe that it is not worth continuing; for example, if the DB has been truncated.