Removing duplicate rows from table in Oracle

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juan picture juan · Feb 9, 2009 · Viewed 457.6k times · Source

I'm testing something in Oracle and populated a table with some sample data, but in the process I accidentally loaded duplicate records, so now I can't create a primary key using some of the columns.

How can I delete all duplicate rows and leave only one of them?

Answer

Bill the Lizard picture Bill the Lizard · Feb 9, 2009

Use the rowid pseudocolumn.

DELETE FROM your_table
WHERE rowid not in
(SELECT MIN(rowid)
FROM your_table
GROUP BY column1, column2, column3);

Where column1, column2, and column3 make up the identifying key for each record. You might list all your columns.

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