A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

I have to design a SQL query on an Oracle 10 DB. I want to do it in an elegant way and avoid, if possible, using sub-queries and in the most portable way possible. Basically it's query involving 3 ...