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agilob on March 17, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Boinc lets you help cutting-edge science research ...

Just wait until you hear about most ecommerce platforms doing `SELECT * FROM` just to display 2 columns.

mjochim on March 18, 2024 | [–]

Even more interesting is the software that does SELECT * FROM just to display two rows.

cultofmetatron on March 18, 2024 | | [–]

Just wait till you hear about the developers out there doing `select* from` and then using reduce inside their api server to sum up the values of a column.

dylan604 on March 17, 2024 | [–]

what if your table just has two columns?

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