Excluding a field from an SQL

[Reg Halstead]

Hi all.

Does anyone know if there's a way to specify which fields to exclude from an SQL rather than which fields to include?

For example, let's say I have 10 fields and I want to only include the first 9 in my SQL, then I could write the following:

Select COL1,COL2,COL3,COL4,COL5,COL6,COL7,COL8,COL9 from my_table where ...

However, a way to specify "all but col10" would be very handy for me and would speed some up my loops tremendously by not having to make extra copies of large files.

I'm hoping there's something very simple along these lines:

Select * not col10 from my_table where ...

Select *,-col10 from my_table where ...

Many thanks in advance,

Reggie

[Uffe Kousgaard]

Hi,

I have wanted to do something like that too, but SQL doesn't support it.
Here is a small mapbasic application, which will do something like that and perhaps you can turn it into a function you can call from your application.

Regards
Uffe Kousgaard


include "mapbasic.def"

dim i as integer
dim s,t,exclude_field as string

exclude_field = ucase$("fieldB")
s = ""
for i = 1 to tableinfo(test_table,TAB_INFO_NCOLS)
  t = ucase$(columninfo(test_table,"COL"+(str$(i)),COL_INFO_NAME))
  if t<>exclude_field then
    if s="" then
      s = t
    else
      s = s+","+t
    end if
  end if
next

t = "select "+s+" from test_table"
run command t
browse * from selection

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[Reg Halstead]

Sorry about the delay. That was very useful. I hadn't considered using "run command" for an SQL so that's going to help with other scripts I need to write as well. Thanks a lot.