A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

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As an SQL fan, I have lots of SQL statements in my application (right now most are embedded quoted within Java code, but I hope to change that). Of course, we all know the parameterization stuff: ...