Select all columns except one in MySQL?

I'm trying to use a select statement to get all of the columns from a certain MySQL table except one. Is there a simple way to do this?

EDIT: There are 53 columns in this table (NOT MY DESIGN)

Solution 1:

Actually there is a way, you need to have permissions of course for doing this ...

SET @sql = CONCAT('SELECT ', (SELECT REPLACE(GROUP_CONCAT(COLUMN_NAME), '<columns_to_omit>,', '') FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME = '<table>' AND TABLE_SCHEMA = '<database>'), ' FROM <table>');

PREPARE stmt1 FROM @sql;
EXECUTE stmt1;

Replacing <table>, <database> and <columns_to_omit>

Solution 2:

TEMPORARY TABLE

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS temp_tb;
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE ENGINE=MEMORY temp_tb SELECT * FROM orig_tb;
ALTER TABLE temp_tb DROP col_a, DROP col_f,DROP col_z;    #// MySQL
SELECT * FROM temp_tb;

DROP syntax may vary for databases @Denis Rozhnev

Solution 3:

Would a View work better in this case?

CREATE VIEW vwTable
as  
SELECT  
    col1  
    , col2  
    , col3  
    , col..  
    , col53  
FROM table