Hi Ryan, there are many reasons why you shouldn't pull data with "Select *"
1. You have some overhead for the database to create the List of the columns to retrieve 2. You pull unnecessary data causing more CPU utilization and mainly lot of network traffic. Just imagine the table having a MEMO field in it 3. Since the query analyzers of the database server generates an execution best suited for performance using * will almost allways generate bookmark lookups which hurt performance 4. In the source code you do not know which columns you get in the resultset 5. The code in fact is much easier to read 6. Using INNER JOINS can cause ambiguous references if two columns are named the same but I must admit i do it the same way sometime just out of lazyness. But only if I know what results are expected. Greetings / Grüsse Gert Franz Customer Care [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.railo.ch Join our Mailing List / Treten Sie unserer Mailingliste bei: deutsch: http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/railo/ english: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railo_talk/ Ryan, Terrence schrieb: > I have a dumb question. Can someone point me to a definitive explanation > of why select * in SQL is bad? > > I've found this : http://www.adopenstatic.com/faq/selectstarisbad.asp > but I don't thing it effectively counters the argument "But I need all > of the columns in the table." > > Mind you, that I'm not looking for convincing for myself, rather I'm > doing a code review, and want to be have a stronger footing for saying: > "Get rid of the select *'s." > > Terrence Ryan > Senior Systems Programmer > Wharton Computing and Information Technology > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:246138 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
