Checking multiple columns for one value

Question

I have a table that has columns like this for example:

id,col1,col2,col3,col4

Now, I want to check if ANY of col1, col2,

Answer 1

You could do something like: (Note: Assuming the columns are numeric values. And, just incase the concatenated value creates the character sequence you are looking for, use a delimiter to distinguish the column values. Pipe (|) is the delimiter in this example.)

SELECT [ID]
    ,[Col1]
    ,[Col2]
    ,[Col3]
    ,[Col4]
FROM [Table1]
WHERE '123' IN (
    CAST([Col1] AS VARCHAR) + '|'
    + CAST([Col2] AS VARCHAR) + '|'
    + CAST([Col3] AS VARCHAR) + '|'
    + CAST([Col4] AS VARCHAR) + '|'
)