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manibad
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Posted - 10/04/2012 :  16:43:29  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have a table named dup and in that i have to columns namely ID and Name.The values in the table are
ID Name
1 M
1 M
1 M
1 M
1 M

My aim is to delete the duplicated records and keep the distinct record.That is i gotta to delete 4 out of 5 rows and keep the rest.

How is this possible?
Pls give ur methods and explanations

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

India
47189 Posts
Posted - 10/04/2012 :  17:02:36  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
yep. do like


DELETE t
FROM
(SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY ID,Name ORDER BY ID) AS Seq
FROM Table
)t
WHERE Seq>1



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