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Asked: 2026-05-25T20:34:30+00:00

This question is all about laziness… I’d like to do something like this: select

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This question is all about laziness… I’d like to do something like this:

select some_func(some_col), * from my_table

So that I don’t have to do this:

select some_func(some_col), col_1, col_2... col_ad_infinitum from my_table

Is there any way to make the first query work? This is the error I get when I run it:

ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 1: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '* from my_table' at line 1
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  1. Editorial Team

    Do you mean that in MySQL your first query:

    SELECT some_func(some_col), * 
FROM my_table

    produces this error?:

    Error Code: 1064. You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘*’ at line 1

    You can change your code into (this results in no errors!):

    SELECT *, some_func(some_col) 
FROM my_table

    or into this, if you want to have the calculated columns first:

    SELECT some_func(some_col), t.* 
FROM my_table AS t
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