°(computing) a situation, often represented by a point in time, at which the state of a database system is known to be valid, and to which it can be returned to in the event of a crisis by using a combination of backups and logs.
"After the crash, we rolled back the database to the last checkpoint."
°(computing) a situation, often represented by a point in time, at which the state of a database system is known to be valid, and to which it can be returned to in the event of a crisis by using a combination of backups and logs.
"After the crash, we rolled back the database to the last checkpoint."