friendly querying of data in Go

mysql.go

package main

import (
	"database/sql"
	"fmt"
	_ "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql"
)

func main() {

	db, err := sql.Open("mysql", "user:pass@tcp(127.0.0.1:3306)/database")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err.Error())
	}
	defer db.Close()

	rows, err := db.Query("SELECT a_id, a_ip, a_type, a_float FROM t_table")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err.Error())
	}

	for rows.Next() {
		cols, err := rows.Columns()
		if err != nil {
			fmt.Println("Failed to get columns", err)
			return
		}

		rawResult := make([][]byte, len(cols))

		dest := make([]interface{}, len(cols)) // A temporary interface{} slice
		for i, _ := range rawResult {
			dest[i] = &rawResult[i] // Put pointers to each string in the interface slice
		}

		err2 := rows.Scan(dest...)
		if err2 != nil {
			fmt.Println(err)
		}
		fmt.Println(string(*dest[1].(*[]uint8)))
	}

}

another solution is to use reflection and https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx/blob/master/sqlx.go#L522