Overview
Article will cover some best practices on how to delete duplicate rows in sql server.
We’ll be using a student table. Query for the table creation
Inserted 4 rows into the table, row with roll Number 1 is repeated twice.
select * from tbl_Studentfollowing query can be used to check duplicate rows based on rollNumber,
Query result : Output shows that rollNumber with ‘1’ is repeated 2 times.
here I will be explaining two methods for deleting duplicate rows.
Method 1 – by keeping original
In this method all duplicate rows will be deleted except the original copy. Check this query
after deletion, student table will be shown as below
Method 2 – without keeping original
In this method all repeated rows including original copy will be deleted.
query
resulting table will be like this
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