Hello Bob,
>> >> Is there any way to tell if the sweep was successful other than all of the markers > > >>>>matching? Is there any way to tell why a sweep would have failed? > > >> > >> No. You should manually check transactions' markers difference, or use > > >>tool like FBDataGuard which can check it in desired time and send warning. > > And what happens if the transaction markers don't align after a sweep? > > It's an indication that you have tons of garbage in your database, and you'll have slowness soon. To have more details about garbage, you can gather gstat -r statistics after failed sweep and analyse it - in text form or graphically with IBAnalyst. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon (www.ib-aid.com) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]