SQLite WAL Corruption: How to Detect, Fix and Prevent It in you Homelab [2026]

SQLite is everywhere: on your phone, in your browser, in most self-hosted apps, and even as the primary database of large production services. It is &ldquo;boring technology&rdquo; in the best way — until it isn&rsquo;t. In August 2026, Tailscale published the story of how a rare data race in SQLite&rsquo;s checkpointing code corrupted databases across their control plane for six months, in 19…