How do I select all the columns from a table, plus additional columns like ROWNUM?

Question

In Oracle, it's possible to do a SELECT statement that returns the row number as a column in your result set.

For example,

SELECT rownum, column1, column2 FROM table

returns:

rownum       column1       column2
1            Joe           Smith
2            Bob           Jones

But I don't want to specify each column by hand. I want to do something like:

select rownum,* from table

rownum       column1       column2       column3       column4
1            Joe           Smith         1             2
2            Bob           Jones         3             4

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Qualify the * with the name of the table:

select rownum, table.* from table