SQL Server: No Guid of a database I built a powershell script for collecting database information with the help of the class "Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server". My script
run into an error because one database has no DatabaseGuid. How could that happen?
I thought every database has a database guid?!
This database is in state "offline". I set an other database to state "offline" but the database has still a guid.

I thought each database reaceives a persistent guid, or?!

Thanks
From this post: Obtaining a unique database identifier for SQL Server 2005 and later
 it seems that 


  probably SMO reads the database_guid value from
  sys.database_recovery_status:
  
  Used to relate all the database files of a database together. All
  files must have this GUID in their header page for the database to
  start as expected. Only one database should ever have this GUID, but
  duplicates can be created by copying and attaching databases. RESTORE
  always generates a new GUID when you restore a database that does not
  yet exist.


And if you open the documentation sys.database_recovery_status (Transact-SQL) you'll find that


  NULL= Database is offline, or the database will not start.


I tried to put some my databases offline and to query database_guid from  sys.database_recovery_status and it is NULL while it's not NULL when bring these databases online again.