SELECT * EXCEPT (...)
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
A useful extension to the previously mentioned standard SQL SELECT * syntax is the BigQuery inspired * EXCEPT (columns) syntax, which takes all of a projection's columns, except some columns. Just like the asterisk itself, this is mainly useful for ad-hoc querying, but it can also be useful for an occasional jOOQ query.
// Renders a SELECT * statement - Explicit unqualified asterisk
create.select(asterisk().except(BOOK.ID)).from(BOOK).fetch();
// Renders a SELECT BOOK.* statement - Explicit qualified asterisk
create.select(BOOK.asterisk().except(BOOK.ID))
.from(BOOK)
.fetch();
create.select(BOOK.asterisk().except(BOOK.ID), AUTHOR.asterisk().except(AUTHOR.ID))
.from(BOOK, AUTHOR)
.fetch();
If a dialect doesn't support this syntax natively, jOOQ will just expand the syntax for you, explicitly, given the knowledge about meta data in generated code.
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
select(asterisk().except(LANGUAGE.ID)).from(LANGUAGE)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, DB2, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB
SELECT LANGUAGE.CD, LANGUAGE.DESCRIPTION FROM LANGUAGE
BigQuery
SELECT * EXCEPT (ID) FROM LANGUAGE
H2
SELECT * EXCEPT (LANGUAGE.ID) FROM LANGUAGE
Snowflake
SELECT * EXCLUDE (ID) FROM LANGUAGE
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