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Re:Why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance (2020) by vp8989 on Monday February 15, 2021 @02:14PM (#26146047)
"someone went around applying every micro-optimisation in the book regardless of how nessasary or appropriate it might be"

This feels like a strawman. I have yet to see an instance of this in my 10 years. The much, much, much more common case is people justifying half-assed shoddy work with YAGNI.

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Re:Why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance (2020) by randallsquared on Monday February 15, 2021 @02:58PM (#26146565)
Survivorship bias suggests we're more likely to see projects that resulted in released software...
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Re:Why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance (2020) by sombremesa on Monday February 15, 2021 @02:44PM (#26146392)
See: solo indie gamedevs that build their own engines for years and subsequently fail to release anything.
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