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Thorsten Hirsch

See, all of our retrieval queries were using the * (known as an asterisk or star), which means results will include every field on the table. This was the day I learned this is a very very very bad idea.

Yep. We introduced the rule to never use "select *" in our queries ~12 years ago. 😊