Check, Please

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  • A really interesting question. It gave me a hard time :crazy:, but it was worth it. I learned something new and I got it right 🙂

    It was unnecessary " to have respect" for PowerShell , the answer to these questions is often the topic of MS SQL Server, thank you, Andy.

  • ...It means you have to check the backup before you set the options for the restore. For my revised code & test above you can infer that my backup did have checksum enabled (or it would have failed). ...

    Are you really telling me you still produce backups without using the checksum option ??

    I strongly advise to grab any occasion to detect corruption as soon as possible!

    As of SQL2005 we've been using checksum for all our backups, no matter Dev/QA/Prod.

    It's better to get an alert due to a failed backup, than to have to deal with a corrupted backup file at restore time, when your production database is down or 50devs are out of work.

    btw:

    As of SQLServer 2014 there is a configuration setting which can just set Backup checksum as the default behaviour !

    'backup checksum default'

    ref: Backup checksum default option in SQL Server 2014[/url]

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  • Deep breath Johan! I'm with you on checksum, I just didn't use it for my tiny test backup when I was scripting. I'm a fan of checksum myself. Did you get the question right?;-)

  • Interesting, thanks for the question Andy!

  • Andy Warren (12/3/2015)


    Deep breath Johan! I'm with you on checksum, I just didn't use it for my tiny test backup when I was scripting. I'm a fan of checksum myself. Did you get the question right?;-)

    No worries, Andy. :w00t:

    Educational moment 🙂

    In my powershell module to restore databases - basically to test our recovery plans - , I have implemented a parameter -NoChecksum to be able to handle backups produced without checksum.

    But we intentionally have it fail because we need to very the source of that backupfile(set).

    Yep, earned myself 3 points today :hehe:

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  • Interesting question. But I must learn to read more carefully - I read "No Error will be thrown..." as "An eror will be thrown..." so selected that option. No points for me on this one!

    I hope no-one ever uses ReplaceDatabase=true without Checksum=true - using that option without enforcing checksum is usually pure insanity.

    Tom

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