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

May be I have a solution to Jan Koritak's pointed out discrepancy

SELECT CONCAT('SELECT ',
( SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(t.col)
FROM
(
    SELECT CASE
    WHEN COLUMN_NAME = 'eid' THEN NULL
    ELSE COLUMN_NAME
    END AS col 
    FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS 
    WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'employee' AND TABLE_SCHEMA = 'test'
) t
WHERE t.col IS NOT NULL) ,
' FROM employee' );

Table :

SELECT table_name,column_name 
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS 
WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'employee' AND TABLE_SCHEMA = 'test'

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table_name  column_name
employee    eid
employee    name_eid
employee    sal

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Query Result:

'SELECT name_eid,sal FROM employee'