When you insert data into an allpages-locked heap table, the data row is always added to the last page of the table. If there is no clustered index on a table, and the table is not partitioned, the sysindexes.root entry for the heap table stores a pointer to the last page of the heap to locate the page where the data needs to be inserted.
If the last page is full, a new page is allocated in the current extent and linked onto the chain. If the extent is full, Adaptive Server looks for empty pages on other extents being used by the table. If no pages are available, a new extent is allocated to the table.
