Please give me queries for the following
1. To get the count of duplicate records.
2. A query to delete the duplicate records.

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Please give me queries for the following 1. To get the count of duplicate records. 2. A query to d..

Answer / srikanth

1. use group by clause with the field on which you want to
check for duplicates

Ex: select salary,count (*) from employee group by salary
having count (*)>1

2. Use the below query to delete the duplicate records (not
the original ones)

SET ROWCOUNT 1
DELETE yourtable
FROM yourtable a
WHERE (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM yourtable b WHERE b.name1 =
a.name1 AND b.age1 = a.age1) > 1
WHILE @@rowcount > 0
DELETE yourtable
FROM yourtable a
WHERE (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM yourtable b WHERE b.name1 =
a.name1 AND b.age1 = a.age1) > 1
SET ROWCOUNT 0

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Please give me queries for the following 1. To get the count of duplicate records. 2. A query to d..

Answer / harshad lakkad (bapunagar part

For Count Duplicate---
SELECT YourColumn, COUNT(*) TotalCount
FROM YourTable
GROUP BY YourColumn
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC
For delete Duplicate---
DELETE
FROM MyTable
WHERE ID NOT IN
(
SELECT MAX(ID)
FROM MyTable
GROUP BY DuplicateColumn1, DuplicateColumn2,
DuplicateColumn2)

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Please give me queries for the following 1. To get the count of duplicate records. 2. A query to d..

Answer / meher

1. To get the duplicate records.
Use group by clause to the column on which you want to
check the duplicates records.
syntax:
select column_name, count(*) from table_name group by
column_name having count(*) >1

2. To delete the duplicate records.
syntax:
delete from table_name where rowid in (select max(rowid)
from table_name group by column_name having count(*)>1 )

This will work.
Please let me know in case of any issues.

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