JournalofAccountancy: Seek first to understand: How a finance leader manages global teams
1 - first keep in mind that your consumer can be assigned to many different topics / partitions through kafka API. Then, seek and assign have two different independent responsibilities, that's why you might think it's redundant, but whenever you need to go back to an offset, or for whatever reason you need to redo an offset, you'll use seek, and for this, seek () need topic and partition info ...
Please excuse my confusion here but I have read the documentation regarding the seek() function in Python (after having to use it). Although it helped me I am still a bit confused on the actual mea...
Adding additional key columns follows the same pattern. Now, if you think about it, SQL Server should be able to use an INDEX SEEK operator to find the desired record, and indeed it does so for most of my tables. However, I have found one table where, no matter what I have tried, SQL Server insists on doing an INDEX SCAN, which is of course much slower in a big table (which this table is). I ...
Force Index seek rather than scan to get next record in T-SQL
What this means is that when you use a std::basic_fstream, which by default uses a std::basic_filebuf, the single file position is moved by both seekp() and seekg(); unless you use a separate variable to store one of the positions so you can then seek back to it, you cannot keep track of put and get positions independently.