Question

I want to make an alias(as in bash) for the following MySQL query:

SHOW COLUMNS FROM table WHERE Field != 'col_name' AND Field != 'col_name';

I read something about views but it seems that I need a SELECT query to use them.

I want to type only something like: showcols in the MySQL prompt and in the background the above query to be executed, is that possible?

PS: I cannot use DESCRIBE because of the length of some enum fields in the table.

Answer 1

You can replace the show columns with a select from the information_schema database.

SELECT column_name FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.`columns` 
WHERE column_name not IN ('col1','col2');

Now you can create a view based on this select:

CREATE VIEW as SELECT ......