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On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In addition, ARCHIVEXYZ currently does this for 33 tables, so manually
spec'ing all the fields in the select statement would be an arduous task.
Not really...
Pretty easy to get a list of columns from SYSCOLUMNS...and if you have 7.2+
and the most recent TR's you can even use the LISTAGG() function to turn it
into a column delimited string.
Archiving is one place it _might_ make sense to use SELECT *.
I say might because it depends, it might be good to automatically pick up a
new column. But only if the destination can automatically handle it.
Charles
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