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I have just finished all of the paperwork. For spring quarter 2009, I will be teaching a SQL Server DBA class at Western Washington University.

The class is for the SQL Server 2005 Specialist Certificate program at WWU. It is part of the Extended Education program.

I work at Emergency Reporting, a fire software company in Bellingham WA.

I work with a great group of people providing fire software that supports fire rescue, EMS agencies and other agencies world-wide.

This tip applies to both Microsoft SQL Server and to Oracle, and probably several other databases.

When you use the asterisk (aka star) in a select statement it requires all columns of data from the result set to be accessed.

Why not SELECT *?

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