diff --git a/scripts/policy/frameworks/storage/backend/sqlite/main.zeek b/scripts/policy/frameworks/storage/backend/sqlite/main.zeek
index 5dba77b20a..c8c5f6ca87 100644
--- a/scripts/policy/frameworks/storage/backend/sqlite/main.zeek
+++ b/scripts/policy/frameworks/storage/backend/sqlite/main.zeek
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ export {
 		## sqlite. The ``integrity_check`` pragma is run automatically and does
 		## not need to be included here. For pragmas without a second argument,
 		## set the value to an empty string.
-		pragma_commands: table[string] of string &default=table(
+		pragma_commands: table[string] of string &ordered &default=table(
+			["integrity_check"] = "",
 			["busy_timeout"] = "5000",
 			["journal_mode"] = "WAL",
 			["synchronous"] = "normal",
diff --git a/src/storage/backend/sqlite/SQLite.cc b/src/storage/backend/sqlite/SQLite.cc
index 4d007fa5c4..d0773530ef 100644
--- a/src/storage/backend/sqlite/SQLite.cc
+++ b/src/storage/backend/sqlite/SQLite.cc
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include <thread>
 
 #include "zeek/3rdparty/sqlite3.h"
+#include "zeek/DebugLogger.h"
 #include "zeek/Func.h"
 #include "zeek/Val.h"
 #include "zeek/storage/ReturnCode.h"
@@ -21,6 +22,8 @@ OperationResult SQLite::RunPragma(std::string_view name, std::optional<std::stri
     if ( value && ! value->empty() )
         cmd += util::fmt(" = %.*s", static_cast<int>(value->size()), value->data());
 
+    DBG_LOG(DBG_STORAGE, "Executing pragma %s on %s", cmd.c_str(), full_path.c_str());
+
     while ( pragma_timeout == 0ms || time_spent < pragma_timeout ) {
         int res = sqlite3_exec(db, cmd.c_str(), NULL, NULL, &errorMsg);
         if ( res == SQLITE_OK ) {
@@ -89,14 +92,6 @@ OperationResult SQLite::DoOpen(OpenResultCallback* cb, RecordValPtr options) {
         return open_res;
     }
 
-    char* errorMsg = nullptr;
-
-    OperationResult pragma_res = RunPragma("integrity_check");
-    if ( pragma_res.code != ReturnCode::SUCCESS ) {
-        Error(pragma_res.err_str.c_str());
-        return pragma_res;
-    }
-
     auto pragmas = backend_options->GetField<TableVal>("pragma_commands")->ToMap();
     for ( const auto& [k, v] : pragmas ) {
         auto ks = k->AsListVal()->Idx(0)->AsStringVal();
@@ -104,7 +99,7 @@ OperationResult SQLite::DoOpen(OpenResultCallback* cb, RecordValPtr options) {
         auto vs = v->AsStringVal();
         auto vs_sv = vs->ToStdStringView();
 
-        pragma_res = RunPragma(ks_sv, vs_sv);
+        auto pragma_res = RunPragma(ks_sv, vs_sv);
         if ( pragma_res.code != ReturnCode::SUCCESS ) {
             Error(pragma_res.err_str.c_str());
             return pragma_res;
@@ -114,6 +109,7 @@ OperationResult SQLite::DoOpen(OpenResultCallback* cb, RecordValPtr options) {
     std::string create = "create table if not exists " + table_name + " (";
     create.append("key_str blob primary key, value_str blob not null, expire_time real);");
 
+    char* errorMsg = nullptr;
     if ( int res = sqlite3_exec(db, create.c_str(), NULL, NULL, &errorMsg); res != SQLITE_OK ) {
         std::string err = util::fmt("Error executing table creation statement: (%d) %s", res, errorMsg);
         Error(err.c_str());
diff --git a/testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.frameworks.storage.sqlite-basic/out b/testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.frameworks.storage.sqlite-basic/out
index 3052fe3a40..e683770c8e 100644
--- a/testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.frameworks.storage.sqlite-basic/out
+++ b/testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.frameworks.storage.sqlite-basic/out
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 Storage::backend_opened, Storage::STORAGE_BACKEND_SQLITE, [serializer=Storage::STORAGE_SERIALIZER_JSON, sqlite=[database_path=test.sqlite, table_name=testing, pragma_commands={
 [synchronous] = normal,
 [journal_mode] = WAL,
-[temp_store] = memory,
-[busy_timeout] = 5000
+[busy_timeout] = 5000,
+[integrity_check] = ,
+[temp_store] = memory
 }, pragma_timeout=500.0 msecs, pragma_wait_on_failure=5.0 msecs]]
 open result, [code=Storage::SUCCESS, error_str=<uninitialized>, value=<opaque of BackendHandleVal>]
 put result, [code=Storage::SUCCESS, error_str=<uninitialized>, value=<uninitialized>]