If the database is not up to date, the log files are replayed from the point that the checkpoint file indicates. Jet logging and recovery can still recover a database without a checkpoint, but the checkpoint allows faster recovery by directing recovery to begin closer to logged operations that must be redone.
This article is 6 years old. Egypt's most famous pharaoh, King Tutankhamun, was a frail boy who suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, according to a study published today that shows he died of complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria and his parents were most likely brother and sister.
Scientists have finally discovered how King Tutankhamun died, nearly a century after the boy-pharaoh's tomb was unearthed in Egypt. A DNA study revealed today the 19-year-old died from complications from a broken leg that was exacerbated by malaria. Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass (third left) headed the latest study of King Tut.