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> Documentation describing the EXCEPT modifier which specifies the names of one or more columns to exclude from the result. All matching column names are omitted from the output.

# EXCEPT modifier

> Specifies the names of one or more columns to exclude from the result. All matching column names are omitted from the output.

<h2 id="syntax">
  Syntax
</h2>

```sql theme={null}
SELECT <expr> EXCEPT ( col_name1 [, col_name2, col_name3, ...] ) FROM [db.]table_name
```

<h2 id="examples">
  Examples
</h2>

```sql title="Query" theme={null}
SELECT * EXCEPT (i) from columns_transformers;
```

```response title="Response" theme={null}
┌──j─┬───k─┐
│ 10 │ 324 │
│  8 │  23 │
└────┴─────┘
```