How to compare one string value to more than 20 column together

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Hi,

Today i am facing a problem not an issue, i googled but not found any appropriate method to compare more than 20 or 50 columns together in sql server, MYSQL. i.e. if i have a query like

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select * from table1 where (col1,col2,col3,col4,col5,col6,col7,col8,col9,col10,col11,col12,col13,col14,col15,col16,col17,col18,col19,col20) in ('test')

that's means records return only when at least one of the column should have 'test' value.

Posted 5-Feb-15 23:06pm

Er. Vikas Sangal

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Thanks7872 6-Feb-15 5:36am

Why you are doing this way? It will be useful to provide a better solution if you can elaborate your question.

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/\jmot · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-05T23:20:00

Solution 1

Use Sql IN claus like this..

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select * from table1 where 'test' in(col1,col2,col3,col4,col5,col6,col7,col8,col9,col10,col11,col12,col13,col14,col15,col16,col17,col18,col19,col20)

ref.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14116292/match-multiple-columns-with-same-value-sql[^]

MSDN SQL IN[^]

Posted 5-Feb-15 23:20pm

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Peter Leow 6-Feb-15 5:55am

5ed!

/\jmot 6-Feb-15 5:57am

thank you.

Er. Vikas Sangal 6-Feb-15 7:34am

Thanks for your solution.
if have to compare more than two string values then what to do?

/\jmot 6-Feb-15 7:50am

like what??
example???

[no name] 6-Feb-15 9:05am

maybe something like this:

WHERE 'a' IN (c1, c2, c3) OR 'b' IN (c1, c2, c3, c4)

/\jmot 6-Feb-15 15:46pm

yes,thank you :)

[no name] 6-Feb-15 15:11pm

Also my 5.
Did not know that this is possible (most probably there is no real need for it), thank you for sharing. Ok, some SQL Server do not support it, but MS-SQL supports it.

/\jmot 6-Feb-15 15:43pm

thank you.