Why is using '*' to build a view bad?

Question

Why is using \'*\' to build a view bad ?

Suppose that you have a complex join and all fields may be used somewhere.

Then you just have to chose fields needed

Answer 1

Once upon a time, I created a view against a table in another database (on the same server) with

Select * From dbname..tablename

Then one day, a column was added to the targetted table. The view started returning totally incorrect results until it was redeployed.

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Totally incorrect : no rows.

This was on Sql Server 2000.

I speculate that this is because of syscolumns values that the view had captured, even though I used *.