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The Evil That is "Select *"

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25 Jul 2011CPOL 6.1K   1  
I 100% agree with this.Another trick is *if possible* add audit columns at the time of creating/designing the database, i.e.:CreatedOnCreatedByLastModifiedOnLastModifiedByThis could prevent people from using Select *, because generally we don't display such information anywhere, and...

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