A checkpoint writes all dirty pages—pages that have been modified in memory, but not on disk, since the last checkpoint—to the database device. The Adaptive Server automatic checkpoint mechanism guarantees that data pages changed by completed transactions are regularly written from the memory cache to the database device. Synchronizing the database and its transaction log shortens the time it takes to recover the database after a system crash.
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