Relevant answers:
If you want to exclude a sensitive case column like the password for example, I do this to hide the value :
SELECT * , "" as password FROM tableName;
A modern SQL dialect like BigQuery proposes an excellent solution
SELECT * EXCEPT(ColumnNameX, [ColumnNameY, ...])
This is a very powerful SQL syntax to avoid a long list of columns that need to be updated all the time due to table column name changes.
You could create a view that has the columns you wish to select, then you can just select * from the view.