All, Let me be the devil's advocate and say that I prefer * despite all the arguments made against it. To me, hand-coding the column names before it becomes evident that this is needed for performance reasons amounts to premature optimization. Most of the time, especially early on in development, using the * prevents annoying code errors where a data model change requires you to go back through a bunch of cfquery's and add a new column that is now needed.
Leon -----Original Message----- From: Crow T. Robot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 3:40 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Select * in SQL Heh - I was referencing that same preso. Even looked it up to make sure I had the right example. Will Tomlinson wrote: > Selene Bainum did a SQL preso at CFUNITED and demo'd the asterisk VS. listing each column. Then she showed the performance differences. > > The asterisk was WAY slower than listing each column. > > Will > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:246190 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
