Dynamic Search in one table

Question

Hi,
I have one table named tab1 consists of multiple columns (col1,........coln). I want to searching one keyword from the whole table. For example keyword is '29' it should be in a street name or some other column. If i given keyword as '29', this should be search my whole table columns and retrieve the exact record..
How to do this????
Pls suggest me and give me the example also...
Regards
Moorthy.GS

Answer 1

Or if you have too many columns or rows, you can do something similar. I've searched for 9999 in EMP table.
SQL> select * from emp
  2  /
     EMPNO ENAME      JOB              MGR HIREDATE         SAL       COMM     DEPTNO
      7839 KING       PRESIDENT            17-NOV-81       5000                    10
      7698 BLAKE      MANAGER         7839 01-MAY-81       2850                    30
      7782 CLARK      MANAGER         7839 09-JUN-81       2450                    10
      7566 JONES      MANAGER         7839 02-APR-81       2975                    20
      7654 MARTIN     SALESMAN        7698 28-SEP-81       1250       1400         30
      7499 ALLEN      SALESMAN        7698 20-FEB-81       1600        300         30
      7844 TURNER     SALESMAN        7698 08-SEP-81       1500          0         30
      7900 JAMES      CLERK           7698 03-DEC-81        950                    30
      7521 WARD       SALESMAN        7698 22-FEB-81       1250        500         30
      7902 FORD       ANALYST         7566 03-DEC-81       3000                    20
      7369 SMITH      CLERK           7902 17-DEC-80        800                    20
      7788 SCOTT      ANALYST         7566 09-DEC-82       3000                    20
      7876 ADAMS      CLERK           7788 12-JAN-83       1100                    20
      7934 MILLER     CLERK           7782 23-JAN-82       1300                    10
      8888 KING       PRESIDENT            17-NOV-81       7000                    10
      9999 ADAMS      CLERK           9999 12-JAN-83       7000                    20
16 rows selected.
SQL> declare
  2     cursor c1 is select column_name from user_tab_columns
  3                   where table_name = 'EMP';
  4     v_col_name user_tab_columns.column_name%type;
  5     v_result number;
  6  begin
  7     open c1;
  8     loop
  9        fetch c1 into v_col_name;
10        execute immediate 'select '||v_col_name||' from EMP '||
11                          ' where '||v_col_name||' = 9999' into v_result;
12        if v_result is not null then
13           dbms_output.put_line('The column is '||v_col_name);
14           exit;
15        end if;
16        dbms_output.put_line('No column found ');
17        exit;
18      end loop;
19  end;
20  /
The column is EMPNO
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> Cheers
Sarma.