# Checkpointing a database
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To checkpoint the database, use the Amazon RDS procedure `rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.checkpoint`. The `checkpoint` procedure has no parameters. 

The following example checkpoints the database.

```
EXEC rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.checkpoint;
```

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon RDS. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query AmazonRDS` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).