less - how to make it not split lines for lines that are too wide when it starts?

I have output that is _very_ wide (output from a sql query) and that, when I start less, is split into multiple lines, difficult to understand what is what... If I press on the right arrow, less will actually start showing single lines for each line of output and we _know_ that there is stuff to the left and to the right and we can continue using the arrows to move around..... _however_ when I move to the very ferst columns, I get again multiline output so I am missing seeing the first few columns to the left with the single line output format. Is it possible to make less start so that it uses a single line right from the get go?