On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:17:50AM +0200, Zak McGregor wrote: > Hi all > > > I have a table, for simplicity's sake containing one field, called unid.
<snip> > (I've marked the rows with duplicated unids with the * to the right) > > I'd like to delete rows in such a way that one (and any one) row for each unid > remains, and all other duplicates are removed. Does anyone have any ideas that > may help me here please? The usual scheme I use is something like: (not perfect SQL) delete from table where exists (select from table where this.id < that.id). Hope this helps, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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