Subject Re: [firebird-support] bad checksum
Author Ann W. Harrison
At 04:53 AM 12/15/2004, Felix Gonzalez wrote:

>Whe I try to connect to a DB get that error "database file appears corrupt
>bad checksum"
>
>There are any way to solve it?

Check the ibsurgeon website - they've got a database dump tool.
Unfortunately, the checksum error usually means that you've got
a page that's all zeros, and that's bad news if it's a page that
gets touched during a connection. Sometimes that happens after
a power failure if forced writes weren't on an the database can
be recovered by creating the missing page - often a TIP page.
The people at IBSurgeon can do that, though the service isn't
free.

Regards,


Ann