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SELECT * EXCEPT (...)

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

A useful extension to the previously mentioned standard SQL SELECT * syntax is the BigQuery inspired * EXCEPT (columns) syntax, which takes all of a projection's columns, except some columns. Just like the asterisk itself, this is mainly useful for ad-hoc querying, but it can also be useful for an occasional jOOQ query.

// Renders a SELECT * statement - Explicit unqualified asterisk
create.select(asterisk().except(BOOK.ID)).from(BOOK).fetch();

// Renders a SELECT BOOK.* statement - Explicit qualified asterisk
create.select(BOOK.asterisk().except(BOOK.ID))
      .from(BOOK)
      .fetch();

create.select(BOOK.asterisk().except(BOOK.ID), AUTHOR.asterisk().except(AUTHOR.ID))
      .from(BOOK, AUTHOR)
      .fetch();

If a dialect doesn't support this syntax natively, jOOQ will just expand the syntax for you, explicitly, given the knowledge about meta data in generated code.

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

select(asterisk().except(LANGUAGE.ID)).from(LANGUAGE)

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- ACCESS, ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, COCKROACHDB, DB2, DERBY, DUCKDB, EXASOL, FIREBIRD, HANA, HSQLDB, INFORMIX, 
-- MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, ORACLE, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLITE, SQLSERVER, SYBASE, TERADATA, TRINO, 
-- VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB
SELECT LANGUAGE.CD, LANGUAGE.DESCRIPTION
FROM LANGUAGE

-- BIGQUERY
SELECT * EXCEPT (ID)
FROM LANGUAGE

-- H2
SELECT * EXCEPT (LANGUAGE.ID)
FROM LANGUAGE

-- SNOWFLAKE
SELECT * EXCLUDE (ID)
FROM LANGUAGE

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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