SELECT N rows before and after the row matching the condition?

Question

The behaviour I want to replicate is like grep with -A and -B flags . eg grep -A 2 -B 2 \"hello\" myfile.txt will give me all the lines wh

Answer 1

Try

Select * from theTable
Where id >=
(Select id - variableHere from theTable where message like '%hello%')
Order by id
Limit (variableHere * 2) + 1