Question

Searching for values that uses the same value

Example

SELECT Name, UnitPrice, Quantity, Color
FROM Product
WHERE Name Like '2' OR UnitPrice Like '2' OR Quantity LIKE '2' OR  Color LIKE '2'

is there a way to shorten the sentence so that i do not need to repeat Variable LIKE ‘value’?

Answer 1

LIKE without wildcards is =

SELECT Name, UnitPrice, Quantity, Color
FROM Product
WHERE '2' IN (Name, UnitPrice, Quantity, Color)

This expands out to a series of OR conditions
Note that the string '2' will be CAST as needed after OR expansion

If you do require wild cards and LIKE, you’d have to use a series of OR statements.

Finally, this won’t scale performance-wise. With good indexing, (eg one per column and other 2 as INCLUDE columns) then this would probably be better written as separate queries with UNION between them

Edit, for clarity

OP wants to use wildcards. Therefore my IN suggestion will not work. So you have to do this

WHERE
    Name Like '%2%' OR
    UnitPrice Like '%2%' OR 
    Quantity LIKE '%2%' OR
    Color LIKE '%2%'

Because of the leading wildcard, there is no point adding indexes. So my text above about indexes+includes is irrelevant