1. A method, implemented by an information handling system, comprising: identifying an expansion clause within a Structured Query Language (SQL) statement, wherein the SQL statement identifies a relational database table; comparing one or more column attributes associated with the identified relational database table to one or more attributes included in the identified expansion clause; selecting one or more columns included in the relational database table based on the comparison; generating a plurality of SQL column selection statements, with each of the generated SQL column selection statements corresponding to a different one of the selected one or more columns; and including the generated SQL column selection statements in the SQL statement.
1. A method, implemented by an information handling system, comprising: identifying an expansion clause within a Structured Query Language (SQL) statement, wherein the SQL statement identifies a relational database table; comparing one or more column attributes associated with the identified relational database table to one or more attributes included in the identified expansion clause; selecting one or more columns included in the relational database table based on the comparison; generating a plurality of SQL column selection statements, with each of the generated SQL column selection statements corresponding to a different one of the selected one or more columns; and including the generated SQL column selection statements in the SQL statement. 7. The method of claim 1 wherein the identifying, comparing, selecting, generating, and including are performed by an SQL pre-processor process, and wherein the method further comprises: processing the SQL statement by the SQL pre-processor, the processing resulting in the generated SQL column selection statements being included in the SQL statement; and executing the SQL statement that includes the generated SQL column selection statements using a relational database management system (DBMS) wherein the executing results in a set of database results.