Patent Document ID: 9208214
Application ID: 13843220

Base Claim:
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.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the column attributes are selected from the group consisting of a column name, a column data type, and a column data size, and wherein the comparing further comprises: identifying a column attribute type, a wildcard character and a search string in one of the attributes included in the identified expression clause; and comparing the search string to a portion of the identified column attribute type based on a position of the wildcard character in relation to the search string.