Put a table* at the bottom of a page?

Question

In a two column document in LaTeX, is there any way to put a table* (a table spanning both columns) at the bottom of the page? The obvious doesn't work:

\begin{table*}[b]   % b!, hb, hb!, etc. doesn't work either
   %... a wide table
\end{table*}

Answer 1

(I just learned about this recently:) This can be solved by loading the stfloats package and specifying a figure placement of [bp] as usual. (The p should always be included in case the bottom placement can never be achieved.)

Answer 2

Use

\usepackage{dblfloatfix}

and thereof the command

\begin{table*}[!b]

This works better than stfloats, as stfloats jumbles up some figures occationally