Works like a charm. Thanks!

- Deon

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From: sqlite-users <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
Richard Hipp
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 10:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [sqlite] Programmatically corrupting a database

On 3/16/18, Deon Brewis <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to write unit tests for some error detection & recovery 
> scenarios and would like to simulate the following type of corruptions:
>
> 1) Header corruption (easy)
> 2) Corrupting a specific SQL Table/Index so that it can be read, but 
> inserts/updates will fail
> 3) Corrupting a specific SQL Table/Index so that it can neither be 
> read nor written to
>
> Any ideas on how to do the last 2?

First run the deadly "PRAGMA writable_schema=ON;" statement.  Then make UPDATEs 
to the sqlite_master table to do things like change the root page number of the 
table or one of its indexes.


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