Is there a quick way to check if ANY column is NULL?

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No. There are ways to code it quicker, but there are no shortcuts like you imply. Taken from an answer I gave on dba.stackexchange:

DECLARE @tb NVARCHAR(255), @sql NVARCHAR(MAX);

SET @tb = N'dbo.[table]';

SET @sql = N'SELECT * FROM ' + @tb + ' WHERE 1 = 0';

SELECT @sql = @sql + N' OR ' + QUOTENAME(name) + ' IS NULL'
    FROM sys.columns 
    WHERE [object_id] = OBJECT_ID(@tb);

EXEC sp_executesql @sql;

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