How to search a row to see if any of the columns contain a certain string? In SQL

I have a table with 10 columns that each contain string values. I want to run a query that will return any of the rows which have any column value that matches a given string or set of strings.

Is there any way to do this?

The DBMS is MsSQL

Answer

if you want exact match, you can use IN keyword and check in all columns

SELECT *
FROM tablename
WHERE 'your string' IN (column1, column2, )

if you want partial match then you have to use LIKE

SELECT *
FROM tablename
WHERE column1 LIKE '%your string%' or column2 LIKE '%your string%' ...

or you can add all columns and do one LIKE check

SELECT *
FROM tablename
WHERE CONCAT(column1,'#',column2,'#',column3,'#',...) LIKE '%your string%'