 | Periodically, the DBMS creates a checkpoint, in order to minimize the time taken to recover in the event of a system crash. Write to log:
 | begin_checkpoint record: Indicates when chkpt began.
| end_checkpoint record: Contains current Xact table and dirty page table. This is a `fuzzy checkpoint’:
 | Other Xacts continue to run; so these tables accurate only as of the time of the begin_checkpoint record.
| No attempt to force dirty pages to disk; effectiveness of checkpoint limited by oldest unwritten change to a dirty page. (So it’s a good idea to periodically flush dirty pages to disk!)
| | | Store LSN of chkpt record in a safe place (master record). | | | |
