Although the best approach is to exclude long data from the select list, some applications do not formulate the select list before sending the query to the ODBC driver (that is, some applications simply SELECT * FROM table_name ...). If the select list contains long data, the driver must retrieve that data at fetch time even if the application does not bind the long data in the result set. When possible, use a technique that does not retrieve all columns of the table.
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