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akpaga
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

USA
331 Posts
Posted - 10/09/2012 :  18:07:20  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi friends,

I have a table customer with following columns A,B,C
all jumbled up

So when i use the query select * from Customer
The results show up as this

B A C but i want them to be displayed in order..is that doable?

Thank you

lazerath
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

USA
343 Posts
Posted - 10/09/2012 :  18:33:12  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Just do this:

SELECT A,B,C from Customer


In fact, you should avoid SELECT * in almost all production level code. The one case where it is acceptable is with EXISTS.
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Mike Jackson
Starting Member

37 Posts
Posted - 10/10/2012 :  08:52:41  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
If you have a bunch of columns you could do this....

declare @table as varchar(50)
set @table='YourTable'
declare @test as varchar(5000)
select @test= COALESCE(@test + ', ', '') + [Name]
from sys.columns
where object_id like
(
select Object_id
from sys.tables
where name=@table
)

select @test= 'Select ' + @test + ' from ' + @table

print @test

exec (@test)

MJ
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akpaga
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

USA
331 Posts
Posted - 10/11/2012 :  11:34:32  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thank you lazerath and mike..Really appreciate it..
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