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Asked: 2026-05-26T22:11:46+00:00

Alright so I have a project in NodeJS where I’m utilizing Sequelize for a

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Alright so I have a project in NodeJS where I’m utilizing Sequelize for a MySQL ORM. The thing works fantastically however I’m trying to figure out if there is a way to specify what fields are being returned on a query basis or if there’s even a way just to do a .query() somewhere.

For example in our user database there can be ridiculous amounts of records and columns. In this case I need to return three columns only so it would be faster to get just those columns. However, Sequelize just queries the table for everything “*” to fulfill the full object model as much as possible. This is the functionality I’d like to bypass in this particular area of the application.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have to specify the attributes as a property in the object that you pass to findAll():

    Project.findAll({attributes: ['name', 'age']}).on('success', function (projects) {
  console.log(projects);
});

    How I found this:

    The query is first called here: https://github.com/sdepold/sequelize/blob/master/lib/model-definition.js#L131
    Then gets constructed here: https://github.com/sdepold/sequelize/blob/master/lib/connectors/mysql/query-generator.js#L56-59

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