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by tremon 1400 days ago
You're missing the point: until you have typed the FROM TableName t in your IDE, SELECT t.<press tab> can not do autocompletion. That has nothing to do with whether SQL supports querying metadata (the ANSI portable way would be through INFORMATION_SCHEMA btw, not DESCRIBE). It's a consequence of the brain not responding to think-ahead queries by the IDE.