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From ASP101]
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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