RE: Delete Duplicate Rows

[michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Thanks Paul...that's what ended up working for me.

- Michael

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Delete Duplicate Rows
> From: "Paul Morgan" <pmorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, September 14, 2005 12:31 pm
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Michael,
> 
> You could user  INSERT with SELECT DISTINCT to copy out one of the duplicate
> records into a temporary file, DELETE all the duplicate records, then INSERT
> back in the one duplicate record.
> 
> If you're lucky there is something on each record that does make them unique
> in the file (like a date/time stamp) then you could just DELETE the
> duplicates by selecting on those values.
> 
> Paul
> 
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> Paul Morgan
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> 
> Michael wrote
> 
> > How can I delete duplicate rows in Interactive SQL? I know how to find
> > them...I don't know how to delete all the dups and just leave one row
> > in a group.
> 
> 
> 
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