[dba-Tech] Function gotcha with use of asterisk

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Function gotcha with use of asterisk
Introduction

During a recent upgrade of our software, I discovered what I assume is a
little-known gotcha that I feel appropriate to document and pass on. The
gotcha occurs with user-defined table functions (UDFs), when selecting
columns from a table using the asterisk (select all) method. The problem
then occurs only when columns are subsequently added or removed from the
based over table without recreating the function. When these conditions
occur, it results in interesting and undesirable output. The SQL below
illustrates this problem using SQL 2000.


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Max