Hello, A while ago, someone (not me!) brought down our collocation server with a home made script which had many queries like this: SELECT * FROM ... I.e. the script was indiscriminately selecting everything from the table even though he might have needed only a few fields. This created heavy traffic between the SQL server and the web server which overwhelmed the platform. To be honest, I don't know the details (he might have been needlessly transferring whole images stored in the DB or something like this!) In Drupal 6.9, I count 120 occurrences of SELECT * FROM ... , not including SELECT COUNT(*) but including variations of SELECT n.*, pi.* FROM ... . Wouldn't it be a good idea to explicitly tell which fields are needed, in order to minimize traffic between SQL server and web server? The SQL coding standards say nothing about this: http://drupal.org/node/2497 Should SELECT * FROM be considered a kind of bug? Should this whole discussion be a 'won't fix' ? (why?) Or is this something worth considering in the issue queue? Blessings, Augustin.