Select every columns, but rename one of them

Question

Let's assume I have a table named Alphabet. Now let's say this table has the following columns:

a, b, c, d, e ..., z

Now I want to select everything from the mentioned table (but select f as aaa), but I don't want to do this:

select a, b, c, d, e, f as aaa, g ..., z
from Alphabet;

Clearly the above is cumbersome if the are a lot of columns. So I am thinking if it is possible to do something like

select f as aaa, *
from Alphabet;

This is probably something there is a lot info about on the net, but I'm not sure what to search for. Has this kind of select got an expression or name? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You can write this:

select a.f as aaa, a.*
from Alphabet a;

Note that the output set will contain both f and aaa. It is unclear whether this is what you want.

To remove f from the result set, you need to list all the columns that you do want.