The invention discloses a check point operation method and device, and relates to the field of computer technology. The check point operation method and device can reduce influences on database system performance in check point operation execution. The concrete scheme is that a dirty page list with information of dirty pages of a to-be-written disc recorded is acquired, the dirty page list comprises at least one dirty page table term, and each dirty page table term corresponds to one dirty page and comprises a document number and a block number of the dirty page corresponding to the dirty page table term; the sequence of the dirty page table terms in the dirty page list are adjusted according to the document number and the block number of each dirty page table term; and the dirty pages corresponding to the dirty page table terms are written into the disc sequentially according to the adjusted sequence of the dirty page table terms in the dirty page list. The check point operation method and device can be used in a check point operation process of a database.