How to select all the columns of a table except one column?

Question

How to select all the columns of a table except one column?

I have nearly 259 columns I cant mention 258 columns in SELECT statement.

Is there

Answer 1

There are lot of options available , one of them is :

 CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE temp_tb SELECT * FROM orig_tb;
 ALTER TABLE temp_tb DROP col_x;
 SELECT * FROM temp_tb;

Here the col_x is the column which u dont want to include in select statement.

Take a look at this question : Select all columns except one in MySQL?