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Selecting * is a bad habit to get into.
1 - Plays heck with cross version programs. Like a program that works
with BPCS 405Cd and bpcs 8.
2 - If your program has no need for the field why bring it in? If you set
up auditing in the future of who read what field you get unnecessary hits.
2a - If someone adds a blob field to the file do you really want to try to
load that into a data structure?
3 - An external DS may still reference nicely but the table on a
"prepared" sql statement may not reference.
Rob Berendt
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