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SQL exclude a column using SELECT * [except columnA] FROM tableA?

Is selecting all columns except one column possible??

here is all column names: id, name, address, age

SELECT id, name, address from TBLUser

I don’t want to use this select statement because the number of columns of my tables are different to each other.

Answer 1

declare @cols varchar(max), @sql varchar(max)
SELECT  @cols = STUFF
    (
        ( 
            SELECT DISTINCT '], [' + name
            FROM sys.columns
            where object_id = (
                select top 1 object_id from sys.objects
                where name = 'TBLUser'
            )
            and name not in ('age')
            FOR XML PATH('')
        ), 1, 2, ''
    ) + ']'
select @sql = 'select ' + @cols + ' from TBLUser'  
exec (@sql)