[thelist] The evils of * in SQL statements...

[Joe Crawford]

Hello evolters (and kudos on evolt.org 2.0) --

A while back Rudy mentioned something about "the evil of * in select
statements" and said something like (reference available) after it.

Well - I'm sort of asking Rudy - but I'd like to hear more about this. I
know the general principal is "don't pull more from the database than
you need, as this impacts performance, etc" - but I'd like to hear it
straight from the SQL-Gods's Mouth. :-)

Muchas gracias,

	Joe
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