I was wondering if there's a drawback (other than bad practice) to using something like this

SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE id LIKE '1';

where id is an integer. I know you're supposed to use id=1 but I am writing a java program and if everything can use LIKE it'll be a lot easier for me. Also, so far, everything works fine; I get the correct query results, so if there is no drawback I will continue doing it like this.

edit: I am using MySQL.