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in tabase table having a column in it empname field is
there which having 5 duplicate values is there i want
deleted all the duplicates i want showing only one name
only.

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in tabase table having a column in it empname field is there which having 5 duplicate values is th..

Answer / karna

delete from emp where empid not in(select max(empid) from
emp group by empname having count(*)>=1)

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in tabase table having a column in it empname field is there which having 5 duplicate values is th..

Answer / jiri

WITH DUPLICATE(EmpName, RowNumber)
AS
(SELECT EmpName,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY EmpName
order by EmpName) AS RowNumber
FROM Employee)

DELETE FROM DUPLICATE WHERE RowNumber > 1

------------------------------------------------------------
Using CTE (Common Table Expressions) and ROW_NUMBER as
ranking fucntion


Jiri JANECEK
MSE, MBA, MCSD.NET

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in tabase table having a column in it empname field is there which having 5 duplicate values is th..

Answer / ambarish

we can use cursor.

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in tabase table having a column in it empname field is there which having 5 duplicate values is th..

Answer / venkat

Hope this methodology would help you better

1.Create a temp table
2.Select duplicated row's empid,empname into the temp table.
3.Create a cursor by selecting values from temp table.
4.Keep either min or max(empid) from original table and
delete the rest of the duplicated rows.

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in tabase table having a column in it empname field is there which having 5 duplicate values is th..

Answer / kumar

Table structure :-

empid empname
1 bala
2 bala
3 bala
4 bala
5 arun
6 arun
7 arun
8 ram
9 ram

Delete from employee where empid
not in (Select min(empid) from employee group by emp
having count(empid)>1)

By
Kumar

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in tabase table having a column in it empname field is there which having 5 duplicate values is th..

Answer / dinesh gupta

Kumar your query do not solve the purpose accurately.

It should be as

Delete from employee where empid
not in (Select min(empid) from employee group by empname
having count(empname)>=1)

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in tabase table having a column in it empname field is there which having 5 duplicate values is th..

Answer / dinesh gupta

use distinct commond

distinct(ename) from table name

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