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...
In a SQL Server Execution plan what is the difference between an Index Scan and an Index Seek I'm on SQL Server 2005.
Index seek, every time. Lookups are expensive, so this is covering indexes and especially the INCLUDE clause was added to make them better. Saying that if you expect exactly one row, for example, a seek followed a lookup can be better than trying to cover a query. We rely on this to avoid yet another index in certain situations. Edit: Simple talk article: Using Covering Indexes to Improve ...
I have been unable to figure out how to do a video seek (automatically advance to a certain point in the video) in the Netflix video player running in Chrome. The currentTime property can be read b...
Netflix video player in Chrome - how to seek? - Stack Overflow
It starts out reasonably quickly, but as it works through the table, gets slower and slower. Scanning another table, which doesn't exhibit the problem, results in about 2,500 records per second, which is acceptable. I am looking for a way to 'force' SQL Server to use the INDEX SEEK rather than the INDEX SCAN. Here is the schema of a table that ...
Force Index seek rather than scan to get next record in T-SQL
Motivated by this answer I was wondering what's going on under the curtain if one uses lots of FileStream.Seek(-1). For clarity I'll repost the answer: using (var fs = File.OpenRead(filePath)) {...