how to restrict colum names

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I am using this to get table's column name. But I want to restrict it. It showing me all column name i dont want to show all column name. How to restrict it?

SELECT column_name FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_name = 'Hadiths_old'

Posted 26-Oct-13 7:19am

Muhamad Faizan Khan

Updated 26-Oct-13 7:27am

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tgrt 26-Oct-13 13:40pm

Tables usually have more than one column. Your query is asking for the column names for a specific table. So the question is, what column do you want?

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phil.o · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-26T07:59:00

Solution 1

You may have to eclude the names you don't want.
You can do that by providing your WHERE clause some more conditions, like

SQL

WHERE table_name='Hadiths_old'
 AND column_name<>'Idontlikethisone%'
 AND column_name<>'neitherthatone%'

for example.

Posted 26-Oct-13 7:59am

phil.o

S. M. Ahasan Habib · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-26T08:39:00

if you want to restrict columns suppose you want to see top 3 columns then

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SELECT top 3 column_name FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_name = 'Hadiths_old'

if you want to see columns which name start abc charecters

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SELECT  column_name FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_name='Hadiths_old' and column_name like 'abc%';

if you want to see columns which name contains abc word

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SELECT  column_name FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_name ='Hadiths_old' and column_name like '%abc%';