In order to show some columns, use NOT IN and set those columns which you do not want to display. Let us first create a table. Following is the query −
mysql> create table student_Information -> ( -> StudentId int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, -> StudentName varchar(50), -> StudentAge int, -> StudentAddress varchar(100), -> StudentAllSubjectScore int -> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.69 sec)
Following is the query to display a description about the above table −
mysql> desc student_Information;
This will produce the following output −
+------------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +------------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | StudentId | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | StudentName | varchar(50) | YES | | NULL | | | StudentAge | int(11) | YES | | NULL | | | StudentAddress | varchar(100) | YES | | NULL | | | StudentAllSubjectScore | int(11) | YES | | NULL | | +------------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Following is the query to display only some columns −
mysql> SHOW COLUMNS FROM student_Information where field not
in('StudentAddress','StudentAllSubjectScore');This will produce the following output −
+-------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | StudentId | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | StudentName | varchar(50) | YES | | NULL | | | StudentAge | int(11) | YES | | NULL | | +-------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)