How To Delete Duplicate Records From A Table
Nov 29, 2004Hello All,
Please show me how to delete duplicate records from a table.
Thanks in Advance
Hello All,
Please show me how to delete duplicate records from a table.
Thanks in Advance
I uploaded some data about 2 or 3 times and it keep appending it to thetable.Now I want to keep only first duplicate and delete rest of.Suppose part number 123 has been added 3 times so I want to keep only 1record.Thanks
View 1 Replies View RelatedHello Frnds....Can anybody give the answer of this question as How to Delete duplicate records from Table ?
I Know that with check option and also with Unique Constraint we can avoid to enter duplicate records in table but How to delete from table which does not have any constraints ?
I use a tabel for storin log data from a mail server. I noticed that I'm getting duplicate records, is there a way to delete the socond and/or third entry so I dont have any duplicates?
I need this done in SP.
Sorry for the new thread.
I have a userprofile table. There are a lot of duplicate records in this table. e.g.
USERID-----LASTNAME---EMAILADDRESS----CREATEDATE
----------------------------------------------------------------------
1----------A-----------A@yahoo.com---------2000-09-05 16:07:00.000
2----------A-----------A@yahoo.com---------2000-09-10 16:07:00.000
3----------A-----------A@yahoo.com---------2000-09-15 16:07:00.000
Userid is auto number, lastname and emailaddress are PK.
I want to delete duplicate records. If lastname and emailaddress are the same, only keep a record which createdate is the most newest date. See above example I only want to the record which userid is 3. I have alreday created a code which I attached below. This code onle keep a record which userid is 1.
Anybody can help me to solve this problem? Thanks.
============== My current code ====================
delete from userprofile where userprofile.userid in
--list all rows that have duplicates
(select p.userid
from userprofile as p
where exists
(select lastname, emailaddress
from userprofile
where lastname = p.lastname and emailaddress = p.emailaddress
group by lastname, emailaddress
having count (userid)>1))
and userprofile.userid not in
--list on row from each set of duplicate
(select min(p.userid)
from userprofile as p
where exists
(select lastname, emailaddress
from userprofile
where lastname = p.lastname and emailaddress = p.emailaddress
group by lastname, emailaddress
having count (userid)>1)
group by lastname, emailaddress)
Hello everyone,
I have a little dilemma. I have a table ALLTABLE that has duplicate records and I want to delete them. ALLTABLE has these columns with these values for example:
Policy Premium Class State Entity Number
ADC-WC-0010005-0 25476 63 31 1
ADC-WC-0010005-0 25476 63 31 2
ADC-WC-0010005-0 25476 63 31 3
ADC-WC-0010005-0 1457 63 29 4
ADC-WC-0010092-1 2322 63 37 1
ADC-WC-0010344-0 515 63 01 1
ADC-WC-0010344-0 515 63 01 2
As you can see there is some duplicates in the first 3 rows and the final 2 (the entity number is the only difference). I want the table to look like this:
Policy Premium Class State Entity Number
ADC-WC-0010005-0 25476 63 31 1
ADC-WC-0010005-0 1457 63 29 4
ADC-WC-0010092-1 2322 63 37 1
ADC-WC-0010344-0 515 63 01 1
Thank you so much for the help. It is really appreciated.
Hi Guys,
I have the following table
customerid customername
------------------------
1 AAA
1 AAA
2 BBB
2 BBB
2 BBB
3 CCC
3 CCC
Here, I need to delete duplicate records from the above table.
After deleting the duplicate records the table should be
like this:
customerid customername
------------------------
1 AAA
2 BBB
3 CCC
Can any one help me!!!!!!
Regards
js.reddy
Hi,
Please help me in constructing a query that will delete duplicate records in a table;
Please see my table structure below:
CREATE TABLE LATEST_DATA (
[ID] int NOT NULL,
[IPage] varchar(100) NULL,
[IDevice] varchar(255) NULL,
[IGroup] varchar(255) NULL,
[IField] varchar(255) NULL,
[IValue] varchar(255) NULL,
[IIcon] int NULL,
[IID] int NULL,
[ReportID] int NOT NULL,
[RVersion] varchar(255) NULL,
[RHost] varchar(255) NULL,
[RUser] varchar(255) NULL,
[RLocation] varchar(255) NULL,
[RDateTime] varchar(16) NULL,
[RComplete] bit NOT NULL
);
-- Insert Latest data
INSERT
INTO LATEST_DATA
SELECT
[Item].[ID],
[Item].[IPage],
[Item].[IDevice],
[Item].[IGroup],
[Item].[IField],
[Item].[IValue],
[Item].[IIcon],
[Item].[IID],
[Item].[ReportID] ,
[Report].[RVersion],
[Report].[RHost],
[Report].[RUser],
[Report].[RLocation],
[Report].[RDateTime],
[Report].[RComplete]
FROM
[dbo].[Item],
[dbo].[Report]
WHERE
[Report].[ID] = [ITEM].[ReportID] AND
[Report].[ID] = ( SELECT
MAX([Report].[ID])
FROM
[dbo].[Report]
);
thanks
I have inherited a database with no primary keys in it. :(
There are, of course, duplicate records by the "logical key", i.e., the list of columns that should have been used in a primary key, if they only had one. I can easily identify when I have duplicate records using group by and having clauses. That's the easy part.I can identify duplicate records by "key columns" and the subset of those records that are "identical duplicates on all columns". I need to delete the "extra copies"
I can't do it by hand using sql server manager, it won't let me, because it recognizes that more than one row matches that row. In Oracle, I would use the pseudo-column "rowid", which would expose the internal identifier for the row.SqlServer doesn't appear to have this concept. is there another way other than creating an empty shadow table, copying all the distinct duplicate records into the shadow table, deleting all the duplicates in the old table, then copying the distinct duplicates back into the old table.
I want to delete the duplicate record from a table keeping 1 record aside.
My base table is-info
idnameclass
2abc6a
3abc6a
4abc6a
1abc6a
2abc6a
4abc6a
4abc6a
3abc6a
3abc6a
1abc6a
2abc6a
5abc6a
id-int
name-text
class-varchar
(there is no primary key in this table)
Now I want the result in following way:
idnameclass
2abc6a
3abc6a
4abc6a
1abc6a
I have tried the following query and its running fine but its not a dynamic stuff.
DELETE top (SELECT COUNT(*)-1 FROM aaa WHERE id ='3') --or put some number
FROM aaa
WHERE id ='3'-- or put some number
I was importing records via DTSWizard, and I was having problems so I turned off Enforce Replicaton, Enforce FK Constraints on a couple of fields. I'm new with SQL Server so I'm not sure if this even caused the problem. (Do I need to turn these back on, or is this a Developer switch of some kind?)
The end result left me with duplicate records in the table, and I'm not able to delete any of them. This is the Error I got...
A problem occurred attempting to delete row 1.
Error Source: Microsoft.VisualStudio,Datatools.
Error Message: The row value(s) updated or deleted either do not make the row unique or they after multiple rows(2 rows).
If someone could tell me what I need to do so I can delete the records I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks,
Bill
Im trying to delete duplicate records from the output of the query below, if they also meet certain conditions ie 'different address type' then I would merge the records. From the following query how do I go about achieving one and/or the other from either the output, or as an extension of the query itself?
SELECT
a1z103acno AccountNumber
, a1z103frnm FirstName
, a1z103lanm LastName
, a1z103ornm OrgName
, a3z103adr1 AddressLine1
, A3z103city City
[Code] ....
Delete and merge duplicate records from joined tables? I am trying to delete duplicate records from the output of the query below, if they also meet certain conditions ie 'different address type' then I would merge the records. From the following query how do I go about achieving one and/or the other from either the output, or as an extension of the query itself?
Select a1z103acno AccountNumber, a1z103frnm FirstName, a1z103lanm LastName, a1z103ornm OrgName, a3z103adr1 AddressLine1, A3z103city City, A3z103st State, A3z103zip Zip, a6z103area AreaCode, a6z103phon PhoneNumber, a8z103mail Email from proddta.fz103a1 with (nolock) inner join proddta.fz103a2 with (nolock) ON a1z103acno = a2z103acno INNER JOIN proddta.fz103a3 with (nolock) ON a2z103adid = a3z103adid and a2z103actv = 'Y' and a2z103prim = 'Y' LEFT OUTER JOIN proddta.fz103a5 with (nolock) ON a1z103acno = a5z103acno and a5z103actv = 'y' and a5z103prim = 'Y' INNER JOIN proddta.fz103a6 with (nolock) ON a5z103phid = a6z103phid LEFT OUTER JOIN proddta.fz103a8 with (nolock) ON a1z103acno = a8z103acno and a8z103actv = 'Y' and a8z103prim = 'Y'
Hi All,I've the following table with a PK defined on an IDENTITY column(INSERT_SEQ):CREATE TABLE MYDATA (MID NUMERIC(19,0) NOT NULL,MYVALUE FLOAT NOT NULL,TIMEKEY INTEGER NOT NULL,TIMEKEY_DTTM DATETIME NULL,IID NUMERIC(19,0) NOT NULL,EID NUMERIC(19,0) NOT NULL,INSERT_SEQ NUMERIC(19,0) IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL)GOALTER TABLE MYDATAADD CONSTRAINT PK_MYDATAPRIMARY KEY (INSERT_SEQ)GOThe TIMEKEY_DTTM field is generated, from the value actually insertedinto theTIMEKEY field, by the following trigger:CREATE TRIGGER TIMEKEY1ON MYDATAFOR INSERT ASBEGINDECLARE @M_TIMEKEY_DTTM DATETIMESELECT @M_TIMEKEY_DTTM = DATEADD(SECOND, INS.TIMEKEY +EP.GMT_OFFSET * 0 ,'1970-01-01 00:00:00.000')FROM INSERTED INS, LOCATIONINFO EPWHERE INS.EID = EP.EIDUPDATE MYDATASET TIMEKEY_DTTM = @M_TIMEKEY_DTTMFROM INSERTED INS, MYDATA MDWHERE MD.INSERT_SEQ = INS.INSERT_SEQENDGOThere is also a composite, non unique, index defined on thetuple:(MID,IID,TIMEKEY,EID)CREATE INDEX IX_METDATA ON MYDATA (MID,IID,TIMEKEY,EID)GOAs a consequence of an application design change, I would also changethis index to be UNIQUE, but when I try to drop and create it I get anerror, because the tables stores some duplicated rows...In order to succesfully upgrade the index definition, I wrote some DMLstaementsto lookup and remove the duplicated rows, keeping only the firstrecord inserted, i.e. the one with the lowest INSERT_SEQ:---- This table stores then umber of duplicated records eventuallydiscovered-- into the MYDATA table; the initial value for the NUM_DUPLICATESfield is-- 0 (no duplicated record)--DROP TABLE DUPLICATESGOCREATE TABLE DUPLICATES (TABLENAME VARCHAR(17),NUM_DUPLICATES NUMERIC(19,0) )GOINSERT INTO DUPLICATES VALUES ('MYDATA',0)GOINSERT INTO DUPLICATES VALUES ('CATEGORIESDATA',0)GO---- ///////// CLEAN UP OF MYDATA TABLE--DROP TABLE TMP_MYDATAGOCREATE TABLE TMP_MYDATA (MID NUMERIC(19,0) NOT NULL,TIMEKEY INTEGER NOT NULL,IID NUMERIC(19,0) NOT NULL,EID NUMERIC(19,0) NOT NULL,INSERT_SEQ NUMERIC(19,0) )GO---- Insert into the TMP_MYDATA table all the duplicated records for-- the tuple (MID,IID,TIMEKEY,EID) and NULL for the INSERT_SEQ field--INSERT INTO TMP_MYDATA (MID,IID,TIMEKEY,EID)SELECT MID,IID,TIMEKEY,EIDFROM MYDATAGROUP BY MID,IID,TIMEKEY,EIDHAVING COUNT(*)>1GO---- Updates the INSERT_SEQ field to the lowest value in the group-- of duplicated records--UPDATE TMP_MYDATASET TMP_MYDATA.INSERT_SEQ = (SELECT MIN(INSERT_SEQ)FROM MYDATAWHERE TMP_MYDATA.MID = MYDATA.MID ANDTMP_MYDATA.IID = MYDATA.IID ANDTMP_MYDATA.TIMEKEY = MYDATA.TIMEKEY ANDTMP_MYDATA.EID = MYDATA.EID )GO---- Updates the value of NUM_DUPLICATES for the MYDATA table.--UPDATE DUPLICATESSET NUM_DUPLICATES = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM TMP_MYDATA)WHERE TABLENAME = 'MYDATA'GO---- Delete from the MYDATA table all the duplicated records,-- keeping only the row with the lowest INSERT_SEQ-- The delete is performed only if there are duplicated recors;-- this is achieved using a "short circuit" AND on the number ofrecords-- stored into the NUM_DUPLICATES field of the DUPLICATES table for-- the MYDATA table...--DELETE FROM MYDATAWHERE ( SELECT NUM_DUPLICATES FROM DUPLICATES WHERE TABLENAME ='MYDATA') > 0 ANDEXISTS ( SELECT 1FROM TMP_MYDATAWHERE MYDATA.MID = TMP_MYDATA.MID ANDMYDATA.IID = TMP_MYDATA.IID ANDMYDATA.TIMEKEY = TMP_MYDATA.TIMEKEY ANDMYDATA.EID = TMP_MYDATA.EID ANDMYDATA.INSERT_SEQ > TMP_MYDATA.INSERT_SEQ )GOThis tecnique works fine on a normal table (1M recs) but is not veryperformanton huge tables (>10M records)!Do you know a better way to achieve the task of removing all theduplicates records, preserving the lowest INSERT_SEQ betwee theduplicates and also preserving the sequence seed, so that a new recordinserted at time t1>t0 is enumerated with an INSERT_SEQ|t1 >max(INSERT_SEQ)|t0 ?Thanks a lot for your help!PatrizioPS. sorry for such a large post!
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi,I have an sql database that has the primary key set to three fields,but has not been set as unique(I didn't create the table).I have 1 record that has 2 duplicates and I am unable to delete theduplicate entries.If I try to delete any of the three records(they are identical) I getthe message 'key column is insufficient or incorrect. Too many rowswere affected by update'.I am trying to do this within Enterprise Mgr.Any suggestion?Thanks much
View 2 Replies View RelatedIm trying to delete duplicate records from the output of the query below, if they also meet certain conditions ie 'different address type' then I would merge the records. From the following query how do I go about achieving one and/or the other from either the output, or as an extension of the query itself?
SELECT
a1z103acno AccountNumber
, a1z103frnm FirstName
, a1z103lanm LastName
, a1z103ornm OrgName
, a3z103adr1 AddressLine1
, A3z103city City
, A3z103st State
[code]...
I have one table with 5 field, one of the field having unique values, and every month i append this table by using import/export wizard from excel, and that excel having some new value and some old value which is already in sql table, now i want such duplicate value delete automatic at the time of append the table or after that,
Currently i am doing this in excel, i delete duplicate data in excel and upload again whole data in sql.
I have a table with more than 1000 records. The columns look like this
Import id | Reference | Date | Username | Filename
Some of the rows are duplicates except for the fact that they have different values for the first column alone (import id)
11111 test 21-07-2015 xxxxxx yyyyyy
22222 test 21-07-2015 xxxxxx yyyyyy
Is it possible to delete these kind of duplicate rows by ignoring the import id ?
Is there is 'fairly' simple query to delete duplicate rows from ANY table ?
A script which removes duplicates from a table, when a table_name is supplied.
How do i remove duplicate records from a table with a single query without using cursors or anything like that.Sample :tempCol11221P.S The table has only one column
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am using Sql Server 2000.
I have a customer table with fields - CustId, Name, Address, City, StdCode, Phone.
I used to insert entries in this table from an excel file.
One excel file will contain thousands of customer.
In this table combination of StdCode and Phone should not be repeated.
If I do it in my VB.Net coding.then application gets drastically slow.
So I want to write a procedure or trigger for this.
Here what I will do, I will send all records into database then this trigger or procedure will check for
any existing entry of combination of StdCode and phone. If entry exists then this will delete new entry
or will not allow this new entry.
Is this possible to do using Trigger or stored procedure?
Hello friends,
I have a one problem, i have a table in that some reocrds are duplicate.i want to find which records are duplicate.
for exp. my table is as follows
emp_id emp_name
1 aa
2 bb
3 cc
1 aa
3 cc
3 cc
and i want the result is like
emp_id emp_name
1 aa
1 aa
3 cc
3 cc
3 cc
I have a table that has duplicate records with the exception of the ID and I am trying to write a while loop that would go through the table, locate all duplicate records based on a field called LASTNAME.
View 5 Replies View RelatedHello,
I need some help on this.
I want to retrieve all the duplicate records from a particulat column.
For eg suppose i have a table named testtable
columns in the table : item_id,ref_no,title,address
now i need to check if there are any duplicate entries in the ref_no column and if there are any retrieve the records.
Gaurish Salunke
Software Developer
OPSPL
I just discovered that all my records appear twice inside my table, inother words, they repeat on the row below. How can I delete all of theduplicates? I'm sure there must be a tidy line of sql to do that.Thanks,Bill
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi Guyz
say i have a table
10011 NULL NULL Classical NULL
10011 NULL NULL Classical NULL
10004 NULL NULL Classical NULL
10004 NULL NULL Classical NULL
10004 NULL NULL Classical NULL
10005 NULL NULL Classical NULL
i want to eliminate the duplicate records and atable should look like
10011 NULL NULL Classical NULL
10004 NULL NULL Classical NULL
10005 NULL NULL Classical NULL
do we have any simple sql to do it or something complex.
thanks in advance !
I loaded one table via SSIS and found that it contained many duplicate records (from the input source). I can create a SQL task to delete them, but I wonder if SSIS offers and task "out of the box" to delete dups?
TAI,
barkingdog
I have a master table and i need to import the rows into the parent and child table.
Master table name is Flatfile_Inventory
Parent Table name is INVENTORY
Child Tables name are INVENTORY_AMOUNT,INVENTORY_DETAILS,INVENTORY_VEHICLE,
Error details will be goes to LOG_INVENTORY_ERROR
I have 4 duplicate rows in the Flatfile_Inventory which i have already inserted in the Parent and child table.
Again when i run the query using stored procedure,its tells that all the 4 rows are duplicate and will move to the Log_Inventory_Error.
I need is if i have the duplicate rows in the flatfile_Inventory when i start inserting into the parent and child table the already inserted row have the unique ID i must identify it and delete that row in the both parent and chlid table.And latest row must get inserted into the Parent and child table from Flatfile_Inventory.
-- ===============================================================================================
-- STORED PROCEDURE FOR FLATFILE_INVENTORY
-- ===============================================================================================
USE [IconicMarketing]
---=======================================SALES_CURSUR===========================================
--USE IconicMarketing
--GO
DECLARE
@FileType varchar(50) ,
@ACDealerID varchar(50) ,
[code].....
any useful SQL Queries that might be used to identify lists of potential duplicate records in a table?
For example I have Client Database that includes a table dbo.Clients. This table contains various columns which could be used to identify possible duplicate records, such as Surname | Forenames | DateOfBirth | NINumber | PostalCode etc. . The data contained in these columns is not always exactly the same due to differences caused by user data entry; so some records may have missing data from some of the columns and there could be spelling differences too. Like the following examples:
1 | Smith | John Raymond | NULL | NI990946B | SW12 8TQ
2 | Smith | John | 06/03/1967 | NULL | SW12 8TQ
3 | Smith | Jon Raymond | 06/03/1967 | NI 99 09 46 B | SW12 8TQ
The problem is that whilst it is easy for a human being to review these 3 entries and conclude that they are most likely the same Client entered in to the database 3 times; I cannot find a reliable way of identifying them using a SQL Query.
I've considered using some sort of concatenation to a new column, minus white space and then using a "WHERE column_name LIKE pattern" query, but so far I can't get anything to work well enough. Fuzzy Logic maybe?
the results would produce a grid something like this for the example above:
ID | Surname | Forenames | DuplicateID | DupSurname | DupForenames
1 | Smith | John Raymond | 2 | Smith | John
1 | Smith | John Raymond | 3 | Smith | Jon Raymond
9 | Brown | Peter David | 343 | Brown | Pete D
next batch of duplicates etc etc . . . .
I have this table:
id | Name | Age
==================
1 | AAA | 22
1 | AAA | 22
2 | BBB | 33
2 | BBB | 33
2 | BBB | 33
3 | CCC | 44
4 | DDD | 55
I need to delete from this table all the duplicate records and leave only one record. The table will looks like this:
id | Name | Age
==================
1 | AAA | 22
2 | BBB | 33
3 | CCC | 44
4 | DDD | 55
I work with sqlCE for Mobile...
I need to delete records from a table (Table1) which has a foreign key column in a related table (Table2).
Table1 columns are: table1Id; Name. Table2 columns include Table2.table1Id which is the foreign key to Table1.
What is the syntax to delete records from Table1 using Table1.Name='some name' and remove any records in Table2 that have Table2.table1Id equal to Table1.table1Id?
I need to delete all records in the TBL_PCL_LENS_DATA table that do not have a corresponding record in the TBL_VERIFICATION table.
Primary Table: TBL_PCL_LENS_DATA
PK: Serial Number
PK: ProcessedDateTime
Child Table: TBL_VERIFICATION
PK: Serial Number
Thanks,
Sean
:confused: Urgent!!
Hi there. I use MS SQL server. I would like to separate the data from one table to two tables refer to two reference tables and the following conditions:
Let say these two reference tables are called:
Table A & Table B
Group A:
1. Same date in Table A & Table B
2. Same ID in Table A & Table B (ID is not unique)
3. Same name in Table A & Table B (Name is not unique)
Combine all of these three conditions for unique identifier.
I used the following SQL code to separate the required data that match the above conditions to the new table.
(Code)
select a.Project, a.Site, a.S_number, a.Field_ID, a.Method, a.Analyte, a.Result, a.Units,
a.Qualifier, a.Dilution_Factor, a.Reporting_limit, a.Recovery_, a.Matrix, a.CAS_Number, a.Sample_Date,
a.Received_Date, a.Prep_Date, a.Analysis_Date, a.Batch_ID, a.Data_Package_num_SDG, a.Lab_Sample_ID,
a.Lab into APPL_union_exist from APPL_union_update a, Before_01012004_report b
where a.Field_ID = b.[Field Sample] and a.Sample_Date = b.Collected and a.Analyte = b.Analyte
However, I don't know how to delete the data that copied to the new table in original table, or separate that to the new table. Wish someone can help me. Thanks a lot
hi,
i have a table in which 100 rows are there . i have duplicate rows. so ho can i remove it . suggest me a command
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