Concat a string to SELECT * MySql

Question

The following query works fine with MySQL:

SELECT concat(title,'/') FROM `socials` WHERE 1 

It Concat / to the selected title field.

However, when I try to do the following:

SELECT concat(*,'/') FROM `socials` WHERE 1 

It returns the follwoing Error:

 #1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '*,'/') FROM `socials` WHERE 1 LIMIT 0, 30' at line 1 

So is there any way to make such sql query to work with MySql

Answer 1

You simply can't do that in SQL. You have to explicitly list the fields and concat each one:

SELECT CONCAT(field1, '/'), CONCAT(field2, '/'), ... FROM `socials` WHERE 1 

If you are using an app, you can use SQL to read the column names, and then use your app to construct a query like above. See this stackoverflow question to find the column names: Get table column names in mysql?

Answer 2

If you want to concatenate the fields using / as a separator, you can use concat_ws:

select concat_ws('/', col1, col2, col3) from mytable 

You cannot escape listing the columns in the query though. The *-syntax works only in "select * from". You can list the columns and construct the query dynamically though.