What is checkpoint?

What is checkpoint?

The act of writing a checkpoint record to the log and force writing log and database buffers to disk. All transaction activity must cease while a checkpoint occurs. The checkpoint interval should be chosen to balance restart time with checkpoint overhead. A traditional checkpoint is known as a cache-consistent checkpoint.


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