Good article Paul, look forward to reading more on it!

I also would like to see more articles like this as I had studied general database engine low-level workings and theories...

One other change that may be needed is that not all the Data presented is an offset, some cleaning may be required with

DELETE FROM Iops WHERE SUBSTRING(Detail, 1, 6) ...

Man, that was one fast response!

Very good article indeed. One small issue that is easily fixed is that you need to use BIGINT and not INT as any respectable sized database is going to produce...