Delete duplicate rows from a table without primary key by
using a single query
Table Employee
empname salary
A 200
B 300
A 200
C 400
D 500
D 500
Output should be
A 200
B 300
C 400
D 500
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Answer Posted / 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
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