page_verify none by default

Question

I am reviewing freshly generated scripts out of SSDT publish tools. These projects were built from a default template, as were the publication profiles. They set page_verify none for the database.

I was under some hazy impression that the best practice would be to have it set to checksum.

The only thing I can think of is that the SSDT target platform is Azure. Can someone clear this up with something authoritative?

Thanks

Answer 1

The default options that ssdt chooses often aren't best practices, instead you should choose what you want. For page_verify I agree checksum but it is up to you:

http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/glenn/setting-your-page-verify-database-option-to-checksum/

Incidentally if you import from a production (or similar environment) and you choose "Import database settings" the actual settings will be imported from the database - if it is a new database I would get your dba's to create an empty one on a dev instance with their standard build etc.

Ed