Select all columns except one in MySQL?

Question

I\'m trying to use a select statement to get all of the columns from a certain MySQL table except one. Is there a simple way to do this?

EDIT: There are 53 columns i

Answer 1

To the best of my knowledge, there isn't. You can do something like:

SELECT col1, col2, col3, col4 FROM tbl

and manually choose the columns you want. However, if you want a lot of columns, then you might just want to do a:

SELECT * FROM tbl 

and just ignore what you don't want.

In your particular case, I would suggest:

SELECT * FROM tbl

unless you only want a few columns. If you only want four columns, then:

SELECT col3, col6, col45, col 52 FROM tbl

would be fine, but if you want 50 columns, then any code that makes the query would become (too?) difficult to read.