Hey HEY! Another old Fox-Jockey! :) (There are still a few of us left in the
world)
While I understand your suggestion, I would suggest that you steer clear of
using Select * at all except when testing or when there is no other way. You
will get better performance by specifying the fields you want returned in
your result set explicitly.
Just my $0.02,
Cal
http://www.calevans.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Landry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 9:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Future suggestion
I just started using MySQL in the past month or so, and love it so far. I
come from a background that includes a lot of FoxPro (way back in the days
of FoxBase for the Macintosh). I also have had a bit of MS SQL Server
experience, but more using it as a back end for Visual Foxpro.
One of the things that have always bugged me about writing a SELECT
statement has been the inablility to exclude certain fields. When doing a
select * from a join, it would be nice to be able to do something like this:
SELECT * EXCEPT invoice.custpo, payment.custid FROM ....remainder of select
statement
Is there anything holding back the developers of MySQL from implementing
such a construct in MySQL, like the goal of ANSI compatability? Am I being
a big dumbass for desiring such functionality?
In any case, thanks to everyone who contributed to MySQL for such a cool
product.
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