"DavidMA" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Does SQL have any sort of checksum value attached to each 8K page or is
> there a feature we can turn on to enable such a checksum?  I'm trying to
> optimize our block data synchronization product specifically for SQL
> databases.  Our product is similar in technology to rsync.  We currently use
> MD5 checksums which can be resource intensive, but are very accurate.  We
> are hoping that SQL already performed some checksum for each 8K page that we
> could utilize to compare at a page level rather than generating our own MD5
> checksums.  Please let me know if SQL has such a technology or if you
> have any suggestions.
>
> Thank you,
> David Aschmann