Daevid Vincent wrote:
WOW! You are right! That's silly. It's a table with a single column. All
unique.
With out the index MySQL doesn't know they are unique.
Anyways, here's the magic incantation that worked for me:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `dupes`;
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE dupes
SELECT LogID
> -Original Message-
> From: Chris W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 9:05 PM
> To: Daevid Vincent; MYSQL General List
> Subject: Re: Deleting duplicate rows via temporary table
> either hung or taking way way too long
>
>
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Daevid Vincent wrote:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `dupes`;
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE dupes
SELECT LogID FROM buglog GROUP BY BID, TS HAVING count(*) > 1 ORDER
BY BID;
LOCK TABLES buglog WRITE;
SELECT * FROM buglog WHERE LogID IN (SELECT LogID FROM dupes) LIMIT 10;
#DELETE FROM buglog WHERE LogID IN (S
Having a bit of trouble deleting 8645 duplicate rows...
#//mySQL is broken and you can't reference a table you're deleting from in a
subselect.
#//http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread490831.html
#// you can't even update said table, so this elegant solution fails too...
#// update buglog set BI
