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

This is not a generic solution, but some databases allow you to use regular expressions to specify the columns.

For instance, in the case of Hive, the following query selects all columns except ds and hr:

SELECT `(ds|hr)?+.+` FROM sales

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+Select#LanguageManualSelect-REGEXColumnSpecification