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Handling Duplicate Records

The document discusses different ways to handle duplicate records in a database table including finding, identifying, and removing duplicates. It provides SQL queries to find duplicates using GROUP BY and COUNT, and remove duplicates using the ROWID or DISTINCT approaches.

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Handling Duplicate Records

The document discusses different ways to handle duplicate records in a database table including finding, identifying, and removing duplicates. It provides SQL queries to find duplicates using GROUP BY and COUNT, and remove duplicates using the ROWID or DISTINCT approaches.

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------------------------------------------------**Handling duplicate

records**----------------------------------------------------------

Finding duplicates:
-->if count(*) >1 then the records has duplicates

>> SELECT column1, column2, COUNT(*)


FROM table_name
GROUP BY column1, column2
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1;
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find unique records?

>> SELECT column1, column2, COUNT(*)


FROM table_name
GROUP BY column1, column2
HAVING COUNT(*) = 1;
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write a query to remove duplicate records ?

1)using rowid:
>>delete from table_name
where rowid not in
(select max(rowid) from table_name
group by col1,col2,col3...)

2) using distinct:
>>select distinct * from table_name?
or
>> create new_table as select distinct * from old_table

note: distinct method is not preferble because it is costly excution (it will
filter all the records)

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what is rowid and what is use of rowid?
note --> rowid is availble in only Oracle

rowid:
- It is a pseudo column that provides a way to directly access a row.
- represents the unique address or identifier for a specific row in a table.

>> select id,name,sal,rowid from emp_dup;

id name sal rowid


100 bala 50000 AAAR5MAAEAAAJpbAAA
200 swati 80000 AAAR5MAAEAAAJpbAAB
100 bala 50000 AAAR5MAAEAAAJpbAAC
300 ramu 50000 AAAR5MAAEAAAJpbAAD
400 shyam 50000 AAAR5MAAEAAAJpbAAE
500 bala 10000 AAAR5MAAEAAAJpbAAF

note - rowid is unique address to each rows (for duplicates also there will be
different rowid address)

>>select max(rowid) from emp_dup;


AAAR5MAAEAAAJpbAAF ---> this will display max rowid (last
column)

how to remove duplicates using rowid?

>>select max(rowid) from emp_dup


group by id,name,sal; ---> this will disply only unique
records and its row id

AAAR5MAAEAAAJpbAAC
AAAR5MAAEAAAJpbAAD
AAAR5MAAEAAAJpbAAB
AAAR5MAAEAAAJpbAAF
AAAR5MAAEAAAJpbAAE

>>delete from emp_dup


where rowid not in ---> this will delete the
duplicate records
(select max(rowid) from emp_dup
group by by id,name,sal)

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how do you handle duplicate records?

primary key --> Use primary keys or unique constraints to prevent the insertion of
duplicate records.

find duplicates--> Detect duplicates using SELECT and GROUP BY statements to


identify instances based on specific columns.

remove duplicates --> remove duplicates uisng rowid or distinct

querying -->Use DISTINCT in SELECT statements to retrieve only unique records when
querying data.
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