MySQL now has crash recovery, thanks to the MySQL Gemini project. You can protect against most common system failures, including power outages and hardware and software problems. Get an inside view of Gemini from the lead developer of the Gemini engine. Explore Gemini's management of database consistency, the role of transactions in automatic crash recovery, the inside of the database engine, and much more. Learn what happens behind the scenes to make a database reliable, and why MySQL provides such a solid foundation.