Question

I wanna use temporary table to avoid field names enumeration inside SELECT clause. And try to do it so:

SELECT * INTO #TempTable 
FROM Acts;

ALTER TABLE #TempTable 
DROP COLUMN id, 
DROP COLUMN numOfAct;

UPDATE #TempTable 
SET dateOfAct = NOW();

SELECT * FROM #TempTable;
DROP TABLE #TempTable;

But it points me an error near “From Acts”. I think # – special symbol in MySQL, anyway, how i can do something like this to avoid enumeration?

Answer 1

This looks much like

SELECT
    [list of columns except for id and numOfAct,
     plus 'NOW() as dateOfAct' instead of dateOfAct]
FROM Acts;