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Rasta Pickles
Posting Yak Master

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Posted - 09/01/2012 :  11:20:26  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I've just about got my head around using a CTE to delete duplicate records but can the syntax be extended to do a bit more?

I will explain

Assume I have a table called worklogs and one of the fields is named worklogid. I know there are going to be duplicate entries in this field but I have to be a bit clever in making sure I delete the right ones.

One of the other fields in this table is called CRNumber.

Now, here's the messy bit (to my novice brain anyway).....I have another table called orders and one of the fields is named CRNumber.

Is it possible to delete duplicate records from the worklogs table where the CRNumber field does NOT appear in the orders table (i.e I want to keep only records where there is an entry in the orders table)?

I started going down the route of


WHERE CRNumber NOT IN (SELECT CRNumber FROM orders)


but ended up confusing myself

Thanks in advance as always.

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

India
47037 Posts
Posted - 09/01/2012 :  12:37:20  Show Profile  Reply with Quote 

FROM worklogs w
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM orders WHERE CRNumber = w.CRNumber)


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Rasta Pickles
Posting Yak Master

United Kingdom
133 Posts
Posted - 09/01/2012 :  12:52:13  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thank you, am I anywhere close with this?


;WITH cte AS
(SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY worklogid ORDER BY CRNumber) AS RN
FROM worklogs w
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM orders WHERE CRNumber = w.CRNumber)


I'm not "feeling it" as the youth of Britain say......
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

India
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Posted - 09/01/2012 :  12:54:11  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
sorry why do you need a CTE here? you can have this in select itself

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Rasta Pickles
Posting Yak Master

United Kingdom
133 Posts
Posted - 09/01/2012 :  13:03:16  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I'm still learning

My "safe" knowledge is that to delete duplicate rows you use a CTE?

Are you saying it's as simple as 


DELETE FROM worklogs w
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM orders WHERE CRNumber = w.CRNumber)


?
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

India
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Posted - 09/01/2012 :  13:04:18  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
yep...as per your requirement

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Rasta Pickles
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Posted - 09/01/2012 :  14:54:36  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Outrageously simple.

I will try it on Monday
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

India
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Posted - 09/01/2012 :  15:03:27  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
ok...np

let me know how you got on!

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