MySQL Greater Than IN

Question

Currently I'd have to write a query like this

SELECT * FROM table WHERE value1 > 5000 OR value2 > 5000 OR value3 > 5000 OR value4 > 5000

As you can see, the 5000 is compared to all of those columns. Ideally, you'd be able to write a query like this

SELECT * FROM table WHERE 5000 GREATER(value1,value2,value3,value4)

I know you can do

SELECT * FROM table WHERE 5000 IN(value1,value2,value3,value4)

But that tests for equality, not greater than.

Is there a way to do what I'm looking for?

Answer 1

You could do:

SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE greatest(value1, value2, value3, value4, value5) > 5000 ;

As a note, this is not exactly the same. If any of the values are NULL this will return NULL, which is treated as false. The version with or will skip NULL values.