How do I select column(s) by their “numeric” position in a table?

Question

I am trying to select columns by their \"x\" position in the table.

DBI

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Answer 1

You could read COLUMNS.ORDINAL_POSITION (see here), but this sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

You can (and always should!) quote column names in ``, e.g. SELECT `colname`. This will handle cases of table names being Condition or SELECT.