Salesforce SOQL describe table

Question

Is there a way to fetch a list of all fields in a table in Salesforce?  

DESCRIBE myTable

doesn't work, and 

SELECT * FROM myTable

doesn't work.

Answer 1

select * from table_name is used in SQL. But, SOQL doesn’t support anything like that. You’ll need to use the following code for the same:

SObjectType accountType=Schema.getGlobalDescribe().get(‘Account’);

Map<String,Schema.SObjectField>mfields=accountType.getDescribe().fields.getMap();

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