>>1. You have some overhead for the database to create the List of the columns to retrieve
IMHO this is a wrong argument: it is definitely easier for the driver to take the list of columns as it is defined in the datasource, than to read yours and compare with the list in the datasource to check if they are legal column names. >>2. You pull unnecessary data causing more CPU utilization and mainly lot of network traffic. Right,... unless what you need is all columns, like it was supposed by the original poster. >>4. In the source code you do not know which columns you get in the resultset If you don't know the columns you get, how come you can list them in the query? -- _______________________________________ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:246178 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
