PS I should have mentioned that it wasn't me that discovered this but "Evgeny" on dba.stackexchange He was reporting a much greater disparity in times. See http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/102403/why-is-select-much-faster-than-selecting-all-columns-by-name
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