我们都知道,要从表中选择所有列,可以使用

SELECT * FROM tableA

是否有一种方法可以在不指定所有列的情况下从表中排除列?

SELECT * [except columnA] FROM tableA

我所知道的唯一方法是手动指定所有列并排除不需要的列。这真的很耗时,所以我正在寻找方法来节省时间和精力,以及未来的维护表应该有更多/更少的列。


当前回答

你可以创建一个包含你想要选择的列的视图,然后你可以从视图中选择*…

其他回答

下面是生成在查询中使用的列的列表(不是自动查询,因为这没有指定):

SELECT 
    GROUP_CONCAT(
        CONCAT('`', `COLUMN_NAME`, '`')
        SEPARATOR ',\n'
    ) AS `cols`
FROM information_schema.`COLUMNS`
WHERE `TABLE_SCHEMA` = 'db'
AND `TABLE_NAME` = 'table_name_here'
AND `COLUMN_NAME` NOT IN ('exclude_col1', 'exclude_col2')

会产生:

`included_col1`,
`included_col2`,
`included_col3`

然后你可以复制这个在查询中使用:

SELECT
    `included_col1`,
    `included_col2`,
    `included_col3`
FROM db.table_name_here

Postgres sql有一种方法

请参考: http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/41-How-to-SELECT-ALL-EXCEPT-some-columns-in-a-table.html

信息Schema Hack方法

SELECT 'SELECT ' || array_to_string(ARRAY(SELECT 'o' || '.' || c.column_name
        FROM information_schema.columns As c
            WHERE table_name = 'officepark' 
            AND  c.column_name NOT IN('officeparkid', 'contractor')
    ), ',') || ' FROM officepark As o' As sqlstmt

对于我的特定示例表,上面的代码生成如下所示的sql语句

选择o.officepark、o.owner o.squarefootage 从办公室公园As o

DECLARE @SQL VARCHAR(max), @TableName sysname = 'YourTableName'

SELECT @SQL = COALESCE(@SQL + ', ', '') + Name 
FROM sys.columns
WHERE OBJECT_ID = OBJECT_ID(@TableName)
AND name NOT IN ('Not This', 'Or that');

SELECT @SQL = 'SELECT ' + @SQL + ' FROM ' + @TableName

EXEC (@SQL)

更新:

如果您经常使用这个任务,还可以创建一个存储过程来处理它。 在这个例子中,我使用了内置的STRING_SPLIT(),它在SQL Server 2016+上可用, 但如果你需要,有很多例子教你如何在SO上手动创建它。

CREATE PROCEDURE [usp_select_without]
@schema_name sysname = N'dbo',
@table_name sysname,
@list_of_columns_excluded nvarchar(max),
@separator nchar(1) = N','
AS
BEGIN
 DECLARE 
 @SQL nvarchar(max),
 @full_table_name nvarchar(max) = CONCAT(@schema_name, N'.', @table_name);

 SELECT @SQL = COALESCE(@SQL + ', ', '') + QUOTENAME([Name])
 FROM sys.columns sc
 LEFT JOIN STRING_SPLIT(@list_of_columns_excluded, @separator) ss ON sc.[name] = ss.[value]
 WHERE sc.OBJECT_ID = OBJECT_ID(@full_table_name, N'u')
 AND ss.[value] IS NULL;

 SELECT @SQL = N'SELECT ' + @SQL + N' FROM ' + @full_table_name;
 EXEC(@SQL)
END

然后就是:

EXEC [usp_select_without] 
@table_name = N'Test_Table',
@list_of_columns_excluded = N'ID, Date, Name';

基本上,你不能做你想做的事情,但你可以得到正确的工具来帮助你,让事情变得更容易一些。

如果你看一下Red-Gate的SQL提示,你可以输入“SELECT * FROM MyTable”,然后把光标移到“*”后面,然后点击<TAB>来展开字段列表,并删除那些你不需要的字段。

这不是一个完美的解决方案——但却是一个非常好的解决方案!:-)太糟糕了MS SQL Server Management Studio的智能感知仍然不够智能,无法提供此功能.......

Marc

是的,这是可能的(但不建议)。

CREATE TABLE contact (contactid int, name varchar(100), dob datetime)
INSERT INTO contact SELECT 1, 'Joe', '1974-01-01'

DECLARE @columns varchar(8000)

SELECT @columns = ISNULL(@columns + ', ','') + QUOTENAME(column_name)
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'contact' AND COLUMN_NAME <> 'dob'
ORDER BY ORDINAL_POSITION

EXEC ('SELECT ' + @columns + ' FROM contact')

代码说明:

Declare a variable to store a comma separated list of column names. This defaults to NULL. Use a system view to determine the names of the columns in our table. Use SELECT @variable = @variable + ... FROM to concatenate the column names. This type of SELECT does not not return a result set. This is perhaps undocumented behaviour but works in every version of SQL Server. As an alternative you could use SET @variable = (SELECT ... FOR XML PATH('')) to concatenate strings. Use the ISNULL function to prepend a comma only if this is not the first column name. Use the QUOTENAME function to support spaces and punctuation in column names. Use the WHERE clause to hide columns we don't want to see. Use EXEC (@variable), also known as dynamic SQL, to resolve the column names at runtime. This is needed because we don't know the column names at compile time.