sql question

[Dennis]

Merrill Oveson wrote:

>Anybody know of sql statement where I can select all the columns
>except one or two.
>
>I.e.  Instead of this:
>
>   select a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n from foo
>
>I could do this:
> 
>   select *, except m,n from foo
>
>possible?
>  
>
You could create a view that selects the columns you want.  Then you can
"select * from the_view".  There isn't an SQL way to exclude some in any
of the DBs I know about though.

>I'm using sqlserver and mysql
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