SQL exclude a column using SELECT * [except columnA] FROM tableA?

Question

We all know that to select all columns from a table, we can use

SELECT * FROM tableA

Is there a way to exclude column(s) from a table witho

Answer 1

Basically, you cannot do what you would like - but you can get the right tools to help you out making things a bit easier.

If you look at Red-Gate's SQL Prompt, you can type "SELECT * FROM MyTable", and then move the cursor back after the "*", and hit to expand the list of fields, and remove those few fields you don't need.

It's not a perfect solution - but a darn good one! :-) Too bad MS SQL Server Management Studio's Intellisense still isn't intelligent enough to offer this feature.......

Marc