Re: Delete Duplicate Rows -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Delete Duplicate Rows
From: "Paul Morgan" <pmorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:31:44 -0400
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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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