Testing the Join Design

At any time in the join design process, you can validate the join by pressing the validate toolbar button to see if you have included enough information to successfully join the two source data sets.

Validate Button

Upon successful validation of a join design, you can test the join by selecting the View>Joined Data (Test) file menu item or the browse toolbar>Browse Joined Data (Test) submenu item. Testing the join will do the following:

• Save various join design files in a temporary directory
• Join the data
• Display the joined data in the data browser

Depending on the size of the source data sets as well as whether or not the source data sets need to be sorted, this could take some time.