Answer / swati tripathi

declare myCursor cursor for
select empid
from employee
group by empid
having count(*) > 1

declare @EmpId int


OPEN myCursor;
FETCH NEXT FROM myCursor INTO @EmpId
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN

delete top(select count(*)-1 from employee where
empid=@EmpId) from employee where empid=@EmpId

FETCH NEXT FROM myCursor INTO @EmpId
END
close myCursor

deallocate myCursor

Answer / sumathy

Execute the following query for each duplicate value.

1.Delete duplicate of empname='A'

delete top(select count(*)-1 from employee where
empname='A') from employee where empname='A'

2.Delete duplicate of empname='D'

delete top(select count(*)-1 from employee where
empname='D') from employee where empname='D'

Answer / navneet sharma

select distinct * from tablename

Answer / honey

with myCTE as(
select row_number() over( partition by empname order by
empname) as myCount from Employee
)delete from myCTE where myCount >1

Answer / sunil

set rowcount 1 -- set row count 1

delete a from Employee a
where (select count(*) from Employee e where e.empname =
a.empname) > 1

while @@rowcount > 0
begin
delete a from Employee a
where (select count(*) from Employee e where e.empname =
a.empname) > 1
end
set rowcount 0

Answer / pradeep

DECLARE @TEMP_TABLE TABLE (EMPNAME VARCHAR(10),SALARY
VARCHAR(10))

INSERT INTO @TEMP_TABLE (EMPNAME ,SALARY )
SELECT 'A','200' UNION ALL
SELECT 'B','300' UNION ALL
SELECT 'C','400' UNION ALL
SELECT 'A','200' UNION ALL
SELECT 'A','200' UNION ALL
SELECT 'D','500' UNION ALL
SELECT 'D','500' UNION ALL
SELECT 'B','300'

/* TABLE RAW DATA */
SELECT * FROM @TEMP_TABLE

SELECT * FROM @TEMP_TABLE AS A
WHERE (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM @TEMP_TABLE AS B WHERE
A.EMPNAME=B.EMPNAME AND A.SALARY=B.SALARY) > 1

/* OUTPUT SHOULD BE */
SELECT DISTINCT * FROM @TEMP_TABLE

/* DELETE DUPLICATE/TRIPLICATE.... RECORDS */
SET ROWCOUNT 1

DELETE @TEMP_TABLE FROM @TEMP_TABLE AS A
WHERE (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM @TEMP_TABLE AS B WHERE
A.EMPNAME=B.EMPNAME AND A.SALARY=B.SALARY) > 1
WHILE @@ROWCOUNT > 0
DELETE @TEMP_TABLE FROM @TEMP_TABLE AS A
WHERE (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM @TEMP_TABLE AS B WHERE
A.EMPNAME=B.EMPNAME AND A.SALARY=B.SALARY) > 1

SET ROWCOUNT 0
/**********************************************/
/* EXPECTED OUTPUT TABLE */
SELECT * FROM @TEMP_TABLE

Answer / shankaranarayanan v

while exists(select count(*) from employee group by empname having count(*)>1)
begin

delete top(1) from employee where empname in
(
select min(empname) as deletedname
from employee
group by empname
having count(*)>1
)

end

Answer / devender kumar

This query is for sql server 2005 and higher version of sql
server. It will not run on older versions.



with myCTE as(
select row_number() over( partition by empname order by
empname) as myCount from Employee
)delete from myCTE where myCount >3

Answer / gaurav sharma

SELECT DISTINCT * INTO Employee1 FROM Employee
DROP Table Employee
sp_rename 'Employee1','Employee'

Answer / samba shiva reddy . m

delclare @temp(empname varchar(50),sal int)
select * into @temp
FROM employee
GROUP BY empname, salary
HAVING count(*) > 1
delete from employee
select * into employee from @temp as temp

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