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Eliminate Duplicates FRM sql2005 Tables

This document describes how to eliminate duplicate records from a table that tracks product price history by keeping only the most current data. It uses a subquery to select the maximum effective date for each unique product ID, and then joins this result back to the original table to filter out lower effective dates, leaving only the most recent price entry for each product. This allows keeping the full history in the same table while printing reports that show only current prices.

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Eliminate Duplicates FRM sql2005 Tables

This document describes how to eliminate duplicate records from a table that tracks product price history by keeping only the most current data. It uses a subquery to select the maximum effective date for each unique product ID, and then joins this result back to the original table to filter out lower effective dates, leaving only the most recent price entry for each product. This allows keeping the full history in the same table while printing reports that show only current prices.

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Eliminate duplicates

--**************************************
--
-- Name: Eliminate duplicates
-- Description:To elminate duplicates fr
-- om results from table in which version h
-- istory exists so you have the most curre
-- nt data only output to screen.
-- By: James Travis
--
-- Assumes:In SQL you can use subqueries
-- to build a result of data which you can
-- join back to the table. The subquery ac
-- ts as a base line of key values to make
-- duplicates disappear while still allowin
-- g verions of preiovus data to exist in t
-- he same table.
--
-- Assume you have a situation like this
-- .
-- Your company has a list of products t
-- hat occasionally changes but you want to
-- keep the previous price. They want to c
-- harge the current rate while still havin
-- g the previous rate in the same table. T
-- hey also want to be able to print a repo
-- rt which list all products current price
-- .
--
-- Our table looks like this:
--
-- Name: ProdPrice
--
-- Col1: ProdID
-- Col2: EffDate
-- Col3: Price
--
-- Col1 and 2 are the Clustered Primary
-- key so we can keep products together in
-- order of their effdate when price change
-- d. This is ideal in a product environmen
-- t as you want to access the products mos
-- t current price as fast as possible.
--
--
--

SELECT ProdPrice.* FROM


ProdPrice
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT ProdID, Max(EffDate) AS EffDate FROM ProdPrice GROUP BY ProdID
) AS CurrData
ON
ProdPrice.ProdID = CurrData.ProdID AND
ProdPrice.EffDate = CurrData.EffDate

-- Also to get the price for a specific


-- Product you add the following to the sub
-- query CurrData before the Group By:

WHERE ProdID = prodidwanttosee

-- This can also be handy if you want to


-- find duplicates to be deleted but want
-- to keep the most current, if you have ke
-- y fields that help with this (Or you can
-- add an increamenting column that you ca
-- n use then delete for your max to fix th
-- ose full line duplication issues). For t
-- he above example you just make the follo
-- wing change.

ProdPrice.EffDate != CurrData.EffDate

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