Question

I have to perform a select on a table in the following manner: I am searching for some strings in 2 columns, the search string can be in either one or the second, or in both.

To select from a single column I would use something like:

SELECT * FROM table 
WHERE TITLE LIKE '%pat1%' OR TITLE LIKE '%pat2%' OR TITLE LIKE '%pat3%' etc. 

There is no limit for the search patterns.

But I want to perform this query so that it checks if the search patterns are in either a column or the other.

Answer 1

Concatenate the two columns to become one.

where CONCAT(title,subject) like '%pat1%'

also check out

MATCH (col1,col2,…) AGAINST (expr [IN BOOLEAN MODE | WITH QUERY EXPANSION] )