Select all fields from table A but single field from B?

Question

Is there a way in ABAP's OpenSQL to simplify the select columns in a JOIN when I want to grab all the fields of one table but only selected fields from the other table(s)?

For instance, in mysql we can simply do :

SELECT  tb1.*, tb2.b, tb2.d
FROM       tableA tb1
INNER JOIN tableB tb2 ON tb1.x = tb2.a

However, OpenSQL does not seem to allow selecting tb1~*, tb2~b, tb2~d so I have to resort to this:

SELECT  tb1.x, tb1.y, tb1.z, tb2.b, tb2.d
FROM       tableA tb1
INNER JOIN tableB tb2 ON tb1.x = tb2.a

For very large tables, especially standard tables, this becomes unwieldy, difficult to read and more annoying to maintain.

Is there a better way to select all fields of tb1 and some fields from tb2?

Answer 1

Yes, this is possible in the OpenSQL from 7.40 SP08. See this article .

The quotation from the article has that.

Column Specification

In the SELECT list, you can specify all columns of a data source using the syntax data_source~* from 7.40, SP08 on. This can be handy when working with joins.

SELECT scarr~carrname, spfli~*, scarr~url
       FROM scarr INNER JOIN spfli ON scarr~carrid = spfli~carrid
       INTO TABLE @DATA(result).

In the previous versions unfortunately one has to specify the columns one by one or use database native SQL for example with ADBC .