Just a follow-up from this question on DBVALID:
If my understanding of John's clarifications in the cited question is correct, then DBVALID with no arguments does a VALIDATE DATABASE and a VALIDATE TABLE for each table/materialized view and a VALIDATE INDEX for each index.
Currently, the SA 12 docs state that ...
by default, dbvalid validates all the tables, materialized views, and indexes, in the database, and validates the database itself.
For sa_validate(), the SA 12 docs (as corrected in DCX) specify, that....
if neither owner nor tbl_name are specified, all tables and materialized views in the database are validated. Also, the database itself is validated, including checksum validation, and validation that the number of rows in the each table or materialized view matches the number of rows in each associated index.
So, is my conclusion correct that both DBVALID with no arguments and sa_validate() with no arguments perform the same set of checks?
If so, that might be another reason the clarify the docs:)