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Deletion of duplicates without ID field?

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Johnph
Posting Yak Master

103 Posts

Posted - 2014-06-17 : 15:06:57

I need to delete duplicates off a table. Duplicates are reliate on specific columns (COL1, COL2, COL3):

TABLE1

COL1,COL2,COL3,COl4,COL5
A,A,A,B,B
A,A,A,B,C
A,A,B,B,B
A,A,A,H,H
B,B,B,F,F
B,B,B,E,E

For table1, I want to get rid of a rows with matching COL1, COl2, and COl3. The results should be like this:

TABLE1

COL1,COL2,COL3,COl4,COL5
A,A,A,B,B
A,A,B,B,B
B,B,B,F,F

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2014-06-17 : 15:16:20

Search here for "deleting duplicates". You'll be grouping on multiple columns.

Tara Kizer
SQL Server MVP since 2007
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/

mmkrishna1919
Yak Posting Veteran

95 Posts

Posted - 2014-06-18 : 03:34:16

Try this?

with cte(col1,col2,col3,col4,col5,rn) as
(select t1.*,row_number() over (partition by t1.col1,t1.col2,t1.col3 order by t1.col5 asc) rn
from sqlteam t1
inner join sqlteam t2 on
t1.COL1 = t2.col1
and t1.COL2 = t2.COL2
and t1.COL3 = t2.COL3)

select col1,col2,col3,col4,col5 into #test
from cte where rn=1

select * from #test

M.MURALI kRISHNA

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