Your coding task may explicitly or implicitly involve changing fields on the go. In some cases, SELECT * or SELECT alias.* together with some kind of introspection is the only way to go.
I just posted a question on meta.stackoverflow.com suggesting that it should provide a hint to questioners that they should ask in dba.SE instead, perhaps trying to use AI technology to detect the questions that would be more appropriate.
Someone suggested that I should ask her whether you'd lik...
Your coding task may explicitly or implicitly involve changing fields on the go. In some cases, SELECT * or SELECT alias.* together with some kind of introspection is the only way to go.
