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Access Method Operations
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<h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="am_verify"></a>Database verification and salvage</h2>
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<p>The <a href="../api_reference/C/dbverify.html" class="olink">DB->verify()</a> method verifies that a file, and any databases it may
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contain, are uncorrupted. In addition, the method may optionally be
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called with a file stream argument to which all key/data pairs found in
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the database are output. There are two modes for finding key/data pairs
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to be output:</p>
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<li>If the <a href="../api_reference/C/dbverify.html#verify_DB_SALVAGE" class="olink">DB_SALVAGE</a> flag is specified, the key/data pairs in the
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database are output. When run in this mode, the database is assumed to
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be largely uncorrupted. For example, the <a href="../api_reference/C/dbverify.html" class="olink">DB->verify()</a> method will
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search for pages that are no longer linked into the database, and will
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output key/data pairs from such pages. However, key/data items that
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have been marked as deleted in the database will not be output, as the
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page structures are generally trusted in this mode.</li>
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<li>If both the <a href="../api_reference/C/dbverify.html#verify_DB_SALVAGE" class="olink">DB_SALVAGE</a> and <a href="../api_reference/C/dbverify.html#verify_DB_AGGRESSIVE" class="olink">DB_AGGRESSIVE</a> flags are
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specified, all possible key/data pairs are output. When run in this mode,
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the database is assumed to be seriously corrupted. For example, key/data
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pairs that have been deleted will re-appear in the output. In addition,
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because pages may have been subsequently reused and modified during
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normal database operations after the key/data pairs were deleted, it is
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not uncommon for apparently corrupted key/data pairs to be output in this
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mode, even when there is no corruption in the underlying database. The
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output will almost always have to be edited by hand or other means before
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the data is ready for reload into another database. We recommend that
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<a href="../api_reference/C/dbverify.html#verify_DB_SALVAGE" class="olink">DB_SALVAGE</a> be tried first, and <a href="../api_reference/C/dbverify.html#verify_DB_AGGRESSIVE" class="olink">DB_AGGRESSIVE</a> only tried
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if the output from that first attempt is obviously missing data items or
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the data is sufficiently valuable that human review of the output is
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preferable to any kind of data loss.</li>
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