fangles wrote:
I'm currently searching through all columns in a table to see if any match
the search text and the query is rather cumbersome. Is there a way to use a
loop to go through all available columns by some means? Maybe a loop by
querying the schema?

If you had a PK on that table and used a view to concatenate the columns

create view v as select pk, first||...||deleted as cols from addr;

you could reduce the select to

select * from addr where pk = (select pk from v where cols like srch);

Martin

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