Home Forums Article Discussions Article Discussions by Author Discuss content posted by AJ Preventing usage of "SELECT *..." RE: Preventing usage of "SELECT *..."

  • November 5, 2009 at 6:32 am

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    I can't take anything away from the article... the author did a nice job on it. Well done.

    I do, however, agree with some of the others... SELECT * is VERY useful for ease of discovery during development and troubleshooting of code. Making SELECT * impossible to use would be frustrating to everyone using a production system and would offer no help on development systems where developers typically have at least DBO and possibly SA privs (as they probably should).

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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