How to delete records with duplicate fields, such as dupplicate emails?

Balazs — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:09:32 +0000

To delete records where only a field is duplicated, we can use a similar technique to the general duplicate removal technique:

CREATE TABLE temp AS SELECT DISTINCT ON (email) * FROM table_to_deduplicate;
DROP TABLE table_to_deduplicate;
ALTER TABLE temp RENAME TO table_to_deduplicate;

Be mindful of the fact that this process will not preserve the constraints on the original table. So if you have indexes, NOT NULL attributes, primary keys, foreign keys, you’ll have to recreate them.

How to delete dupplicate records in DB2, Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL

Balazs — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:06:59 +0000

To delete dupplicate records in SQL, the following sequence of commands will do the trick:

CREATE TABLE temp AS SELECT DISTINCT * FROM table_to_deduplicate;
DROP TABLE table_to_deduplicate;
ALTER TABLE temp RENAME TO table_to_deduplicate;

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How to delete records with duplicate fields, such as dupplicate emails?

How to delete dupplicate records in DB2, Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL