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Chapter 7. The SELECT Clause > The Dreaded, Evil Select Star
7.6. The Dreaded, Evil Select Star
We first met SELECT * back in Chapter 5, where I mentioned that I call it “dreaded and evil” because using it is rarely a good idea. SELECT * is a short form for specifying all columns. Here’s a reminder of what it looks like in an SQL query:
SELECT * FROM entries
