How do I corrupt a SQL CE Database?

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Published on 2010-04-28T20:26:50Z Indexed on 2010/05/23 3:10 UTC
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I want to be able to check for a corrupted database at startup, and then repair it programmatically. I can do that easily enough.

My problem is that I want to test that things work the way I expect. Does anyone know of a way to purposefully corrupt a database so I can test my code?

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