如果您有许多列，而您只想排除其中一列。您可以使用下面的命令 从表中选择* exclude(列名)

No.

轻维护的最佳实践是只指定所需的列。

至少有两个原因:

这使得客户端和数据库之间的契约是稳定的。每次都是相同的数据 性能，涵盖指标

编辑(2011年7月):

如果您从对象资源管理器中拖动表的列节点，它会在查询窗口中为您放置一个CSV列列表，从而实现您的目标之一

就像其他人说的那样，没有办法做到这一点，但如果你使用Sql Server，我使用的一个技巧是将输出更改为逗号分隔，那么就这样做

select top 1 * from table

并从输出窗口中剪切整个列列表。然后你可以选择你想要的列，而不必把它们全部输入。

您可以从devart.com获得SQL Complete，它不仅像Red Gate的SQL Prompt一样展开*通配符(如cairnz的回答所述)，而且还提供了一个列选择器下拉复选框，您可以在选择列表中选中您想要的所有列，它们将自动为您插入(如果您然后取消选中某个列，它将自动从选择列表中删除)。

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.

在SQL (SQL Server)中自动做到这一点的方法是:

declare @cols varchar(max), @query varchar(max);
SELECT  @cols = STUFF
    (
        ( 
            SELECT DISTINCT '], [' + name
            FROM sys.columns
            where object_id = (
                select top 1 object_id from sys.objects
                where name = 'MyTable'
            )
            and name not in ('ColumnIDontWant1', 'ColumnIDontWant2')
            FOR XML PATH('')
        ), 1, 2, ''
    ) + ']';

SELECT @query = 'select ' + @cols + ' from MyTable';  
EXEC (@query);