When a server shuts down and restarts, its MEMORY tables become empty. The master replicates this effect to slaves as follows: The first time that the master uses each MEMORY table after startup, it logs an event that notifies the slaves that the table needs to be emptied by writing a DELETE statement for that table to the binary log. See Section 13.8, “The MEMORY (HEAP) Storage Engine”, for more information about MEMORY tables.