Re: Help with cleaning up data

2014-03-31 Thread Bob Eby
delete b from icd9x10 a join icd9x10 b on a.icd9 = b.icd9 and a.id < b.id >... > CREATE TABLE `ICD9X10` ( > ... > id icd9 icd10 > 25 29182 F10182 > 26 29182 F10282 > ... Good luck, Bob

Re: Help with cleaning up data

2014-03-30 Thread william drescher
On 3/29/2014 2:26 PM, william drescher wrote: I am given a table: ICD9X10 which is a maping of ICD9 codes to ICD10 codes. Unfortunately the table contains duplicate entries that I need to remove. CREATE TABLE `ICD9X10` ( `id` smallint(6) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `icd9` char(8) NOT NULL, `

RE: Help with cleaning up data

2014-03-29 Thread David Lerer
Bill, here is one approach: The following query will return the id's that should NOT be deleted: Select min (id) from icd9x10 group by icd9, icd10 Once you run it and happy with the results then you subquery it in a DELETE statement. Something like: Delete from icd9x10 A where A.id not in (

Re: Help with cleaning up data

2014-03-29 Thread Carsten Pedersen
On 29-03-2014 19:26, william drescher wrote: I am given a table: ICD9X10 which is a maping of ICD9 codes to ICD10 codes. Unfortunately the table contains duplicate entries that I need to remove. ... I just can't think of a way to write a querey to delete the duplicates. Does anyone have a sugg

Re: Help with cleaning up data

2014-03-29 Thread Fran Garcia
Hi Bill, How big is your table? It seems to me that you might want to change your unique keys to something like (icd9, icd10), thus guaranteeing that every mapping will exist only once in your table. You could create a new table with that constraint and copy all your data to it: CREATE TABLE `ICD