On 19 July 2010 15:01, Richard Quadling <rquadl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 July 2010 05:44, Peter <pet...@egrabber.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have a  table which contain's some duplicate rows. I just want to delete
>> the duplicate records alone
>> not original records.
>>
>> Assume my table as look as below
>>
>> column1 column2
>> 1
>>        a
>> 1
>>        a
>> 2
>>        b
>> 3
>>        c
>> 3
>>        c
>>
>>
>>
>> i want the above table need  to be as below, After executing the mysql
>> query.
>>
>> column1
>>        column2
>> 1
>>        a
>> 2
>>        b
>> 3
>>        c
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance..
>>
Slightly more concise ...

-- Delete everything except the UniqueIDs we want to keep.
DELETE FROM
        Table
WHERE
        UniqueID NOT IN
                (
                -- Get the earliest UniqueIDs for each Col1, Col2 pairing.
                SELECT
                        MIN(UniqueID)
                FROM
                        Table
                GROUP BY
                        Col1,
                        Col2
                )

http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/14665




DELETE
        Table
FROM
        Table T1,
        Table T2
WHERE
        T1.Col1 = T2.Col1
        AND
        T1.Col2 = T2.Col2
        AND
        T1.UniqueID > T2.UniqueID

http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian/sql/sql_delete_duplicates.htm



etc.

Many different ways.

http://www.orafaq.com/faq/how_does_one_eliminate_duplicates_rows_from_a_table
Method 3 should be the fastest.

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