MySQL concat() to create column names to be used in a query?

Question

I would like to concatenate column names in a way that the first part of the column name is a string and the second part is a number which is the result of another query.

Answer 1

I would suggest looking at information_schema. The following code is untested but should theoretically work. Obviously replace your table name with an appropriate table name or link to information_schema.tables and use the table_type in your where clause

select concat('column', column_name) from information_schema.columns where table_name ='your table name'