Great question, Ron
thanks
As to who creates views with "SELECT * FROM...":
we recently had a vendor app breaking due to schema changes to the underlying tables (an "upgrade" by the vendor), where the relevant forms use views to reflect data.
upon investigation, we found "SELECT *..." in almost all these views...
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