Re: how to SELECT from table excluding certain columns

[Vivek Khera]

>>>>> "TG" == Troy Grady <troy@stripped> writes:

TG> The trouble is that I'm writing generic functions (in PHP) that
TG> will operate on tables without knowing the names of the exact
TG> columns present or the number of columns present (outside of
TG> certain default columns, like ID, for example, which will be
TG> present in all the tables).  In one case I'd like a

Then the only right thing to do is ask the database what the columns
are for that table, and pick the ones you want.  Then generate the SQL 
command based on those column names.

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