Don't Use Select * in Database Queries

June 3, 2005

Something you see in a lot of database access code is a select statement that looks something like this:

SELECT * FROM TableName WHERE ... 

While there's technically nothing wrong with it, using the SELECT * syntax could be stealing away precious performance from your application, and even it it's not now, it might someday soon.

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