How can I “select *” from a table in MySQL but omit certain columns?

Question

I have a table with the following columns:

id,name,age,surname,lastname,catgory,active

Instead of: SELECT name,age,surname,lastname,c

Answer 1

you can't do that, sorry. Actually you shouln't have done it if you could - specifying these things explicitly is always better, assume other developer adds new field and your application will fail