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> Gurus,
>
> I'm wondering if it's a performance issue if i select all the columns from
> a table even if you don't require.
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> Let say I have a table which has about 50 columns in it and i need to get
> values for only 5-10 columns. So, instead of selecting only these columns
> I select *.
>
> Any idea if that screws up my performance?
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> Santhosh Babu
Received on Fri Jul 21 2000 - 16:56:26 CDT