SQL INSERT performance omitting field names?

Question

Does anyone knows if removing the field names from an INSERT query results in some performance improvements?

I mean is this:

INSERT INTO table1 VALUES (v         


        

Answer 1

I don't know of any performance improvement by omitting the field names but I would advise against it for anything other than testing/once-only inserts.

Readability will suffer (you have to check the table to see what is being inserted where) and your code will break if the table schema is changed