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insertion in heap pages

Jan 19 · 6 min read · Originally published on tudor96stani.com Intro Insertion in heap pages is, in theory, straightforward: you find some free space in the page, place the row there and create a slot pointing to that location. There are, however, multiple small details t...

maintaining stable row identifiers during page maintenance

Jan 5 · 7 min read · Originally published on tudor96stani.com intro Christmas, New Year's, a 1-week ski trip, time with family, the rabbit hole of a full re-organization of my Obsidian vault into a Zettelkasten slip box after reading How to take smart notes - all of thes...

Paging the data

Dec 12, 2025 · 13 min read · Originally published on tudor96stani.com](https://tudor96stani.com/blog/rusting-a-database/paging-the-data/ Intro At the foundation of any database engine is the storage layer - responsible for handling the actual persistence and retrieval of data on...

So I decided to write a database

Dec 12, 2025 · 4 min read · About a year ago I started a personal project to implement a relational database system from scratch, mostly as a result of (1) my interest in the field and (2) a desire to better understand how things work under the hood. Professionally, I’ve been w...