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 ...
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 ...
Could a seek destroy my previously written data if it's still buffered somewhere? The seek call uses some strategy internally and I can't follow that path. No idea what it's doing internally. Do I need to call Flush () explicitly before any Seek ()? Or does the FileStream know which data needs to go where?
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