Re:Why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance (2020)
by AmericanChopper on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:30PM
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Using select * can cause some correctness issues, but from a performance perspective, it’s basically an archetypal topic for bike shedding. In the sense that using the smallest projection you actually need is an optimization, but for most use cases it will end up being an irrelevant optimization. So select * is bad for performance, but you don’t need to care about it unless you’re experiencing one of the problems it case cause, which most people probably don’t. But you can have a back and forth discussions about that forever.
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