Alex Papadimoulis writes: "There was a time where I used to believe that the worst possible way one could retrieve rows from a table was to SELECT the entire table, iterate through the rows, and test a column to see if it matched some critera; ..."
Another infamous SQL WTF: The Where-Unaware Select - woooha, makes me shiver...
By the way, if you think selecting a whole table into memory and scanning through each row programmatically just must be unreal - that's exactly what one of those framework astronauts recommended in a real-life project I know of, where people were forced to use his blasted O/R-mapper. No need to say the project was canceled months later...
