Esos shows a good way of removing duplicate entries from a database table. Of course, if primary keys were used this shouldn’t happen, but doing a select distinct into another table is neat !
Deleting duplicate rows from a MySQL database
Esos shows a good way of removing duplicate entries from a database table. Of course, if primary keys were used this shouldn’t happen, but doing a select distinct into another table is neat !
Remove duplicate entries. Assume the following table and data.
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS Test(
pkey int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
a int,
b int,
c int,
timeEnter timestamp(14),
PRIMARY KEY (pkey)
);
insert into Test(a,b,c) values (1,2,3),(1,2,3),
(1,5,4),(1,6,4);
mysql> select * from Test;
select * from Test;
+——+——+——+——+———————+
| pkey | a | b | c | timeEnter |
+——+——+——+——+———————+
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2004-04-16 10:55:35 |
| 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2004-04-16 10:55:35 |
| 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2004-04-16 10:55:35 |
| 4 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2004-04-16 10:55:35 |
+——+——+——+——+———————+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql>
Note, the first two rows contains duplicates in columns a and b. It contains
other duplicates; but, leaves the other duplicates alone.
mysql> ALTER IGNORE TestdupTest ADD UNIQUE INDEX(a,b);
mysql> select * from Test;
select * from dupTest;
+——+——+——+——+———————+
| pkey | a | b | c | timeEnter |
+——+——+——+——+———————+
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2004-04-16 11:11:42 |
| 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2004-04-16 11:11:42 |
| 4 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2004-04-16 11:11:42 |
+——+——+——+——+———————+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)