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

My main problem is the many columns I get when joining tables. While this is not the answer to your question (how to select all but certain columns from one table), I think it is worth mentioning that you can specify table. to get all columns from a particular table, instead of just specifying .

Here is an example of how this could be very useful:

select users.*, phone.meta_value as phone, zipcode.meta_value as zipcode

from users

left join user_meta as phone
on ( (users.user_id = phone.user_id) AND (phone.meta_key = 'phone') )

left join user_meta as zipcode
on ( (users.user_id = zipcode.user_id) AND (zipcode.meta_key = 'zipcode') )

The result is all the columns from the users table, and two additional columns which were joined from the meta table.