Question

As dumb as it sounds, is there a way to do something like this:

select row_id from mytable where * like '%searched_text%';

By * here I mean “all the fields” in the table, instead of me specifying them one by one…

Answer 1

It is not possible with one query.

However when you do:

DESCRIBE table_name;

you get the field names which you can generate the query from.

Search in all fields from every table of a MySQL database May be useful.