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when I do:
SELECT *
FROM SOMETABLE
I get all the columns from SOMETABLE, but I DON’T want the columns which are NULL (for all records). How do I do this?
Reason: this table has 20 columns, 10 of these are set but 10 of them are null for certain queries. And it is time consuming to type the columnnames….
Thanks,
Voodoo
SQL supports the
*wildcard which means all columns. There is no wildcard for all columns except the ones you don’t want.Type out the column names. It can’t be more work than asking questions on Stack Overflow. Also, copy & paste is your friend.
Another suggestion is to define a view that selects the columns you want, and then subsequently you can
select *from the view any time you want.