Re: Is there a way to replace select * fields in result ?

On 12-06-2021 11:13, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Saturday, June 12, 2021, Condor <condor(at)stz-bg(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there a way to replace select * fileds in result ?
>> I have select qw.* from table but I want field for example mm to be
>> replaced with custom value like:
>>
>> select qw.*, case whem length(qw.mm) > 0 THEN
>> COALESCE(SUBSTRING(qw.mm,
>> 1, 1), '') ELSE qw.mm END AS qw.mm
>>
>> Is there some way to do that ?
>>
>>
> No. If you don’t want a column from “*” to appear in the output you
> cannot
> use “*”. In general, for production, you should avoid “*” anyway.
>
> David J.

Uh .. yes I know. I trying to revisit old procedures from team that left
the project ... and it's seems they use select * to a lot of places.

Thanks,