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My table has values like this

1 Yahoo
1 Yahoo
2 Google
2 Google
2 Google

I need to delete all duplicate records keeping one record. how do i do it?
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Subrata.In 19-Nov-12 5:14am    
Why you are not using a id field in your table?
If it's not possible to add field in your table, you can do it by temporary table/variable.

Here is a sample approach
SQL
CREATE TABLE #SampleTable
(
	ID INT,
	[Name] VARCHAR(100)
)

INSERT INTO #SampleTable	
SELECT 1, 'Yahoo' UNION ALL
SELECT 1, 'Yahoo' UNION ALL
SELECT 2, 'Google' UNION ALL
SELECT 2, 'Google' UNION ALL
SELECT 2, 'Google'

--Before Deleting the duplicate rows
SELECT * FROM #SampleTable;

WITH CTE AS
(
	SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY [Name] ORDER BY [Name]) AS Row, * FROM #SampleTable
)


DELETE FROM CTE
WHERE ROW <> 1

--After Deleting the duplicate rows
SELECT * FROM #SampleTable

DROP TABLE #SampleTable
 
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bolshie6 19-Nov-12 5:52am    
Thanks. works.
__TR__ 19-Nov-12 5:54am    
You are welcome :)
bolshie6 19-Nov-12 6:07am    
Nd can u tell me how actually the select part inside the CTE works?
__TR__ 19-Nov-12 6:12am    
CTE stands for common table expression.
Check out Using Common Table Expressions[^]
More resources here[^]
bolshie6 19-Nov-12 6:15am    
i've used CTEs previously... i did not know about OVER clause. i googled it and learned. Thank u. :)
This question has occurred to developers time and again and there are hundreads of question and articles on this if you search on Google/yahoo ;-)

On CP itself, we have two articles which gives two different ways

How to remove duplicate rows in SQL Server 2008 when no key is present[^]

Remove Duplicate Rows from a Table in SQL Server[^]

Hope taht helps.

Milind
 
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bolshie6 19-Nov-12 5:22am    
Thank u for the answer. but i need to do it with out using a %%physloc%%, or adding an IDcol..

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