Deleting Duplicates
Sep 21, 2004
Hey all.
I have a table with 100,000 plus records in it, and some are duplicates. Is there any way to delete one of them and not the other. For instance, if I duplicate the table I could run this query.
<cfquery name="query1" datasource="datasource">
DELETE DISTINCT
FROM tablename
WHERE FirstName in ( SELECT FirstName from tablename1 where tablename1.FirstName = tablename.FIRST_NAME AND tablename1.LastName = tablename.LAST_NAME AND tablename1.State = tablename.STATE)
</cfquery>
However, it doesn't work. I know the distinct is not correct. But does anyone know how to achieve this, I have looked all over, and everything I try deletes both records. I was thinking of using some kindof count statement, but it still deletes both of them. Please help. Thanks
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Apr 17, 2001
Hi,
does anyone out there know how to delete dulicate records in a table? I've looked in BOL and I can't seem to find it. Please advise.
thanks, mark
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Jul 25, 2006
Hello,I have a stored procedure that deletes duplicatesin one table:.....ASBEGINDELETE FROM mytableWHERE Id IN(SELECT Max(id)from mytablegroup by date, idsenshaving count(*) >1)ENDsometimes it happens that I have >2 rows with duplicated values.How can I write a new stored procedure that delete all rows withduplicated infomrations (leaving only one row with those values)?ThanksM.A.
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Jan 6, 2014
I need to remove duplicate data from around 25 tables. I want to use a while loop to go through all tables. If I list out all of the column names the query runs fine, but since there are 25 tables some with 50 plus columns I was hoping to use something like the following, which errors out because my sub queries return more than one result.
SELECT q.* from
(Select ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( Partition BY (SELECT [name] AS [Name] FROM syscolumns
WHERE id = (SELECT id FROM sysobjects
WHERE type = 'U'
AND [Name] = 'Orders')
)
Order by (select top 1 [name] AS [Name] FROM syscolumns
[Code] ....
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Jul 20, 2005
Suppose that I have a table that contains a lot of records that areidentical except for an id field and a date-time-stamp field. ForexampleId Unit Price DTS1 A 1.00 Date 12 A 1.00 Date 23 A 1.00 Date 34 B 1.25 Date 45 B 1.50 Date 56 B 1.50 Date 67 C 2.75 Date 78 C 2.75 Date 89 C 2.75 Date 910 C 3.00 Date 10I want to cull out records that are duplicates in the units and pricefields. I want to use the max DTS as the criteria for which record ina set of "duplicates" will remain. So, If I get the right query, Ishould return withId Unit Price DTS1 A 1.00 Date 14 B 1.25 Date 45 B 1.50 Date 57 C 2.75 Date 710 C 3.00 Date 10Is this possible using a single query? If so, how? I am sure that Ican do this using code, but it will involve a bunch of loops andprocess time. I would prefer a cleaner, more elegant way. Thanks forany help.Jerry
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Aug 9, 2006
Hello all. I have a table with two coulmns CODE and DESCRITPION. Can anyone suggest how i can go about deleteing the entire record where two or more codes are the same?
Thanks.
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Aug 22, 2006
I know how to detect & delete dups/or >dups in test with a select clause, this works fine in a small table, but if the table has a million rows say, it sounds like a proc would be faster: my question is: How do I display those rows in a proc for detecting what the problem is. The print stmt. doesn't seem to work and I wondered if I had to go through the process of building an output stream. The proc creates okay but I'm stuck after that part.
thx
Kat -- very rough code below
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
create proc dupcount
@count int
as
set nocount on
select categoryID,
CategoryName,
Count(*) As Dups
from Categories
group by Categoryid, CategoryName
having count(*) >1
set @count = @@Rowcount
print convert(varchar(30),CategoryID) + ' ' + convert(varchar(30),@count) + CategoryName
/*set @count = @@RowCount
IF @count > 1
print convert CategoryID, CategoryName, convert(varchar(30),@count)*/
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Jul 27, 2015
How would you differentiate duplicates in a table without deleting.
I have a table name ANGEL that contains duplicate value and i want to append a letter V to the duplicates instead of deleting them.
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Oct 22, 2014
I have a table with 22 million Business records. I can see that there are duplicates when I group by BusinessName and Address and Phone. I'd like to place only the duplicates into a table, with a ranking, oldest business key gets a ranking of 1.
As a bonus I'd like each group to have a distinct group name (although not necessary, just want to know how to do this)
Later after I run more verifications to make sure these are not referenced elsewhere I'll delete everything with a matchRank > 1 out of the main Business table.
DROP TABLE [dbo].[TestBusiness];
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TestBusiness](
[Business_pk] INT IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[BusinessName] VARCHAR (200) NOT NULL,
[Address] VARCHAR(MAX) NOT NULL,
[code]....
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Aug 9, 2007
Hi
i have to delete the master table data without deleting the child table records,is there any solution for this, parent table has relation with the child table.
regards
vinod.t.v
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Jan 26, 2015
Is there a query or a way to convert duplicates value in a column to non duplicates.
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Jul 18, 2014
/****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[dbo.ServiceLog] Script Date: 07/18/2014 14:30:59 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
ALTER proc [dbo].[ServiceLogPurge]
-- Purge records dbo.ServiceLog older than 3 months:
-- Purge records in small portions to avoid locking production tables
-- for a long time. The process takes longer, but can co-exist with
-- normal usage of the tables.
[Code] ...
*** Getting this error below when executing the code ***
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Procedure ServiceLogPurge, Line 45
Incorrect syntax near 'Failed:'.
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Mar 2, 2006
I need some help.
I have created a database that looks like the following:
FirstName Table link to Main Table.
I have created a Stored procedure that looks like this:
Create procedure dbo.StoredProcedure
(
@FirstName varchar(20)
)
Declare FirstNameID int
Insert Into Main Table
(
FirstName
)
Values
(
@FirstName
)
Select @FirstNameID = Scope_Identity()
How could I redesign this to check if a value exists and if it exists then simply use that value instead of creating a new duplicate value?
Thanks!!
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Jun 27, 2001
I have a dilema..... I have a databas eof about 60,000 users and i need to get rid of those users where there is a duplicate email address. I have written an asp utilty that works but is far too taxing on our little server and i thinkk itwill kill it. what it does is for each email address it compares it against all the others.... so for each address it checks against 60,000 other records 60,000 times.... you know what i mean. its pretty phucked.... i tested it on just one record and took about 5mins.
anyway ive been trying to do it in SQL with no luck
here is a simplified version of my dilema
*****
NAMEEMAILAGE
tomtom@mail23
tombomb tom@mail23
petepete@email23
davecool@mail21
stevesteve@mail17
marycool@mail89
thomas tom@mail13
richrich@mail65
richdick@mail65
tomtom@mail23
tomtom@mail23
so what i want to do is cut it down so there are no duplicate email addresses. I want the table looking like this:
*****
NAMEEMAILAGE
tomtom@mail23
petepete@email23
davecool@mail21
stevesteve@mail17
richrich@mail65
richdick@mail65
Can you think of a way to do this?
i tried the following but it gets rid of duplicates of other fields which is not what i want to do
CREATE table distinct_records
SELECT name, Email, Age
FROM duplicate_records
GROUP BY name, Email, Age;
any ideas guys?
thanks
tom.harrow@netpoll.net
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Nov 7, 2005
i've imported a number of spreadsheets into a database
the schema is
directoryid firstname, lastname, extension
703168 Andrew Lim 78094
703154 Joseph Egan 78888
704548 Andrew Lim 78094
I realized the spreadsheet had a large number of duplicates. How can i delete the duplicates ?
like deleting directoryid 703168 only.
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Nov 9, 2005
i'm trying to get duplicates out of the my database
SELECT COUNT(*) AS Amount,
Firstname,
surname,
Internalextension
FROM iac.dbo.sf_profil
GROUP BY FirstName, surname, internalextension
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 order by firstname, surname
How do i alter the query just retrieve records which have firstname and lastname which are similar but different extension numbers ?
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May 8, 2008
Hi,
This is the query which shows me the duplicates
Some of the records have more than one records
I would like to know how to delete the extra records so that I will end up with one record per row.
select
Pricing_Source,
VaR_Identifier,
Price_Date,
PX_Last,
Count(*) as 'count'
from
tblPricesClean
group by
Pricing_Source,
VaR_Identifier,
Price_Date,
PX_Last
having count(*) > 1
order by
count desc
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Jun 13, 2008
Hi,
Is there a way to find duplicates in one field? For example my query has person_nbr and for each person_nbr on one day they could have used multiple payer_names. I want to be able to count each person_nbr one time but also I want to group by description(which is the name of the provider) and by payer name to see how many person's that the provider seen with each payer. My problem is that if the person had more than one payer they are counted twice. Is there some type of aggregate function to use the first payer in the list??
With PersonMIA (person_id,person_nbr,first_name,last_name,date_of_birth) as
(
select distinct person_id,person_nbr,first_name,last_name,date_of_birth from
(select count(*) as countenc,a.person_id,a.person_nbr,
a.first_name,a.last_name,
a.date_of_birth
from person a
join patient_encounter b on a.person_id = b.person_id
group by a.person_id,a.person_nbr,a.first_name,a.last_name,a.date_of_birth )tmp
where tmp.countenc <=1
)
select person_nbr,payer_name,first_name,last_name,description,year(create_timestamp),create_timestamp
from
(
select distinct c.description,tmp.person_id,tmp.person_nbr,tmp.first_name,
tmp.last_name,tmp.date_of_birth,d.payer_name,b.create_timestamp
from PersonMIA tmp
join person a on a.person_id = tmp.person_id
join patient_encounter b on a.person_id = b.person_id
join provider_mstr c on b.rendering_provider_id = c.provider_id
join person_payer d on tmp.person_id = d.person_id
where c.description = 'Leon MD, Enrique'
group by c.description,tmp.person_id,tmp.person_nbr,tmp.first_name,tmp.last_name,
tmp.date_of_birth,d.payer_name,b.create_timestamp
)tmp2
where year(create_timestamp) IN (2005,2006)
group by person_nbr,payer_name,first_name,last_name,description,create_timestamp
Thanks in Advance!
Sherri
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May 10, 2006
Hi,
I'll see if I can explain this clearly. The query below
selects rows from the "hdr_ctl_nbr_status" table if the value in the field "tcn" from that table is found in the table "temp_tcn". I want all fields from the "hdr_ctl_nbr_status" table to be selected BUT only one row. In other words for a tcn with a value "12345678" there are 10 rows returned from the hdr_ctl_nbr_status table, I want only 1. Is there a way I can use SELECT DISTINCT to do this ? I know this usually functions on one or more fields but I want the DISTINCT to be on tcn only BUT return all fields in the query.
Select h.*,'' from hdr_ctl_nbr_status as h WITH (NOLOCK)
where h.tcn in (select tcn from temp_tcn)
Thanks, sorry if this is too confusing. Jeff
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Mar 10, 2008
Hi, All,
I have two columns of int data in the a table, as my example data shows below.
I want my data returned to be something like those in #test3, but my question is this, how can I do it without using #test2 and #test3?
By the way, the business requirement doesn't care it's min/max or any ID when one side has duplicated values.
Thanks!
Use tempdb
Go
if object_ID ('#test') is not null drop table #test
create table #test (col1 int, col2 int)
insert into #test
Select 123, 222 union
Select 124, 222 union
Select 125, 222 union
Select 111, 223 union
Select 111, 224
if object_ID ('#test2') is not null drop table #test2
create table #test2 (col1 int, col2 int)
Insert into #test2
Select distinct col1, min(col2) from #test group by col1
if object_ID ('#test3') is not null drop table #test3
create table #test3 (col1 int, col2 int)
Insert into #test3
Select min(col1), col2 from #test2 group by col2
Select * from #test3
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Jul 28, 2005
I am attempting to execute the Stored Procedure at the foot of thismessage. The Stored Procedure runs correctly about 1550 times, butreceive the following error three times:Server: Msg 512, Level 16, State 1, Procedure BackFillNetworkHours,Line 68Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when thesubquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used asan expression.I've done some digging, and the error message is moderatelyself-explanatory.The problem is that there is no Line 68 in the Stored Procedure. It'sthe comment line:-- Need to find out how many hours the employee is scheduled etc.Also, there are no duplicate records in the Employee table nor theWeeklyProfile table. At least I assume so - if the following SQL todetect duplicates is correct!SELECT E.*FROMEmployee Ejoin(select EmployeeIDfromEmployeeGroup by EmployeeIDhaving count(*) > 1) as E2On(E.EmployeeID = E2.EmployeeID)SELECTW.*FROMWeekProfile Wjoin(SelectWeekProfileIDFROMWeekProfileGROUP BYEmployeeID, MondayHours, WeekProfileIDHAVING COUNT(*) > 1) AS W2ONW.WeekProfileID = W2.WeekProfileIDNOTE: In the second statement, I have tried for MondayHours thruFridayHours.Anyone got any ideas? The TableDefs are set up in this thread:<http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.databases.ms-sqlserver/browse_frm/thread/fff4ef21e9964ab8/f5ce136923ebffc3?q=teddysnips&rnum=1&hl=en#f5ce136923ebffc3>The Stored Procedure that causes the error is here:--************************************************** ***********CREATE PROCEDURE BackFillNetworkHoursASDECLARE @EmployeeID intDECLARE @TimesheetDate DateTimeDECLARE @NumMinutes intDECLARE @NetworkCode int-- Get the WorkID corresponding to Project Code 2002SELECT@NetworkCode = WorkIDFROM[Work]WHERE(WorkCode = '2002')-- Open a cursor on a SELECT for all Network Support Employees whereany single workday comprises fewer than 7.5 hoursDECLARE TooFewHours CURSOR FORSELECTEmployeeID,CONVERT(CHAR(8), Start, 112) AS TimesheetDate,SUM(NumMins) AS TotalMinsFROM(SELECTTI.EmployeeID,W.WorkCode,TI.Start AS Start,SUM(TI.DurationMins) AS NumMinsFROMTimesheetItem TI LEFT JOIN[Work] W ON TI.WorkID = W.WorkIDWHERE EXISTS(SELECT*FROMEmployee EWHERE((TI.EmployeeID = E.EmployeeID) AND(E.DepartmentID = 2)))GROUP BY TI.EmployeeID, TI.Start, W.WorkCode) AS xGROUP BYEmployeeID,CONVERT(char(8), Start, 112)HAVINGSUM(NumMins) < 450ORDER BYEmployeeID,CONVERT(CHAR(8), Start, 112)-- Get the EmployeeID, Date and Number of Minutes from the cursorOPEN TooFewHoursFETCH NEXT FROM TooFewHours INTO @EmployeeID, @TimesheetDate,@NumMinutesWHILE (@@FETCH_STATUS=0)BEGINDECLARE @NewWorkTime datetimeDECLARE @TimesheetString varchar(50)DECLARE @Duration intDECLARE @RequiredDuration int-- Set the correct date to 08:30 - by default the cast from thecursor's select statement is middaySET @TimesheetString = @TimesheetDate + ' 08:30'SET @NewWorkTime = CAST(@TimesheetString AS Datetime)-- Need to find out how many hours the employee is scheduled to workthat day.SET @RequiredDuration = CASE (DATEPART(dw, @NewWorkTime))WHEN 1 THEN(SELECT CAST((60 * SundayHours) AS int) FROM WeekProfile WHERE(EmployeeID = @EmployeeID))WHEN 2 THEN(SELECT CAST((60 * MondayHours) AS int) FROM WeekProfile WHERE(EmployeeID = @EmployeeID))WHEN 3 THEN(SELECT CAST((60 * TuesdayHours) AS int) FROM WeekProfile WHERE(EmployeeID = @EmployeeID))WHEN 4 THEN(SELECT CAST((60 * WednesdayHours) AS int) FROM WeekProfile WHERE(EmployeeID = @EmployeeID))WHEN 5 THEN(SELECT CAST((60 * ThursdayHours) AS int) FROM WeekProfile WHERE(EmployeeID = @EmployeeID))WHEN 6 THEN(SELECT CAST((60 * FridayHours) AS int) FROM WeekProfile WHERE(EmployeeID = @EmployeeID))WHEN 7 THEN(SELECT CAST((60 * SaturdayHours) AS int) FROM WeekProfile WHERE(EmployeeID = @EmployeeID))ENDIF @NumMinutes < @RequiredDurationBEGIN-- Set the Start for the dummy work block to 08:30 + the number ofminutes the employee has already worked that daySET @NewWorkTime = DateAdd(minute, @NumMinutes, @NewWorkTime)-- Set the duration for the dummy work block to be required durationless the amount they've already workedSET @Duration = @RequiredDuration - @NumMinutes-- Now we have the correct data - insert into table.INSERT INTO TimesheetItem(EmployeeID,Start,DurationMins,WorkID)VALUES(@EmployeeID,@NewWorkTime,@Duration,@NetworkCode)ENDFETCH NEXT FROM TooFewHours INTO @EmployeeID, @TimesheetDate,@NumMinutesENDCLOSE TooFewHoursDEALLOCATE TooFewHoursGO--************************************************** ***********ThanksEdward
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Jul 20, 2005
I have a table, TEST_TABLE, with 6 columns (COL1, COL2, COL3, COL4,COL5, COL6).... I need to be able to select all columns/rows whereCOL3, COL4, and COL5 are unique....I have tried using DISTINCT and GROUP BY, but both will only allow meto access columns COL3, COL4, and COL5..... i need access to allcolumns...I just want to get rid of duplicate rows (duplicates ofCOL3, COL4, and COL5)...Thanks in advance.Joe
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Apr 23, 2008
Anyone know how to sum duplicated values so it only sums the distinct values?
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May 21, 2008
I have the following data.
CustID RoleID RelatID StartDate EndDate
20 RIX AGQ 5/05/2007 31/12/9999
20 RIX AGR 10/06/2007 31/12/9999
18 LRS AGQ 3/09/2004 31/12/9999
22 SRT AGP 5/03/2007 31/12/9999
22 SRT AGP 10/03/2007 31/12/9999
I wish to SELECT only the records that have duplicates. So, in the above data example, RoleID of LRS should be excluded.
How to do?
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Feb 12, 2007
Hi!
Grateful for some help as a newbie...
I have a
OLE db SQL command: SELECT DISTINCT convert (char(8),date,112) as day,...etc
Resulting in error "Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_Dim_Date"... so Column Day in Dim_date contains duplicates.
I suppose i need a delete in Lookup or how would I eliminate duplicates in Dim?
DELETE day from dim_date where day in(Select day from date ...
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Feb 25, 2004
I have these two tables and I cant prevent duplicates.
SEARCH
Item
ItemID
Info
CATEGORYDATA
CategoryID
ItemID
SELECT DISTINCT SEARCH.ItemId, SEARCH.Item, CATEGORYDATA.CategoryId
FROM SEARCH
INNER JOIN CATEGORYDATA
ON SEARCH.ItemID = CATEGORYDATA.ItemID
And I get something like:ItemID Item CategoryID
1 item1 1
3 item3 1
1 item1 2 <---duplicate
1 item1 3 <---duplicate
2 item2 3
4 item4 3
Thanks in advance
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Feb 15, 2002
Hello!
Just looking for advise on dealing with duplicates in database.
I have a contact table that have a bunch of duplicated customer records.
My goal is to combine all duplicated records into one record.
This involves couple tables:contact,contact history ,calendar.
All tables related by common column "accountno".
What would be the best approach for this?
Thank you,
Lena
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Aug 2, 2000
I need to remove the duplicates from a table. If a record exits 4 times in a
table I need to delete 3 records and retain only one occurance of that.
I need a query to do this.
Can anybody help.
-Rajesh
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Sep 5, 2000
Hi,
I need to delete ONLY the duplicate rows from a table..Can anyone suggest me a way to do that thing..i used the query..
"Delete from <TableName> where SlNo IN ( Select SlNo from <TableName> group
by SlNO having Count(*) > 1)"
The resultant is all the original rows also getting deleted with the duplicates..anyone please help me out..
Thank you in advance
Rani
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Jul 26, 2002
I have a customer database with the following structure:
Dept ID (int)
Section (varchar)
I need to find only occurrences of a section (eg Admin) where the section name has a record in Dept 1,2 and 3 - only return the result if the record for Admin is associated will these depts.
Example Data:
Dept Section
1 Admin
1 Finance
1 Marketing
2 Admin
2 Sales
2 Marketing
3 Admin
3 Sales
3 Finance
The query would only return 'Admin' since this is the only Section that is represented in Departments 1,2 + 3.
I am not in control of the data design and can't create a bitwise field to achieve this.
tia,
Steve
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Aug 5, 2002
Hi,
I’m using SQL Server 2000. I have a table called Contacts and I would like to be able to have the UserID as an indexed column and to ignore duplicates. I set up the following properties within my SQL Server database table:
Table Name: Contacts
Selected Index: IX_UserID
Column Name: UserID
Order: Ascending
Create Unique
Index
Ignore Duplicate Key
Every time I try to enter duplicates for the UserID column; I get an error that says, “Cannot enter duplicate key row in object ‘Contacts’. Can anyone explain this? Is it possible to create an index column with duplicate data?
Thanks,
Denise
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Jan 27, 2005
I have a members table and have added an extra few thoushand members to it. Now I need to remove the duplicates.
It doesnt matter which duplicate i remove as long as there are unique email addresses.
so here is the format of the table:
id
email
firstname
lastname
datebirth
if i do a:
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Email) AS Expr1
FROM Customer
it returns 21345
and
SELECT Count(Email)
FROM Customer
returns 28987
I can get the unique email addresses into another table by going:
SELECT DISTINCT emailaddress INTO DistinctCustomer
FROM Customer
but this will only return unique email addresses. How do i select distinct email address and all other fields into a new table? or just remove duplicates where email address appears more then once?
Thanks in advance
Tom the SQL beginner
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Jul 7, 2004
I am trying to complete an insert from query but the problem is I have duplicates, so I'm getting an error message. So to correct it I am creating a Find Duplicates statement in the Query analyzer but Its not working can someone tell me whats wrong with this statement (by the way I'm in SQL 2000 Server)
thank you
SELECT EmployeeGamingLicense [TM#]AS [TM# Field], Count([TM#])AS NumberOfDups
FROM TERMINATION
GROUP BY [TM#]
HAVING Count([TM#])>1;
GO
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