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A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

In many environments, there is a quiet compromise that gets made every day. It rarely shows up in project plans or architecture diagrams. No one formally approves it. But it happens, nonetheless.