Re: Would be really nice if...

 especially since good programming practice argues (IMO) against the use of
> 'SELECT *'
It's a bad habit if you are returning columns that you don't need... for sure. It's handy though for views where you want all the columns but only subset of rows, and if a table structure a view is dependant on changes... most likely won't have to bother updating the view too. Received on Wed Feb 23 2005 - 19:20:19 CST