Delete Duplicate Values from MySQL Table in Reverse Order

To understand this concept, we are using the data from table ‘Details_city’ as follows −

mysql> Select * from details_city;
+--------+--------+
| City1  | City2  |
+--------+--------+
| Delhi  | Nagpur |
| Delhi  | Mumbai |
| Nagpur | Delhi  |
| Katak  | Delhi  |
| Delhi  | Katak  |
+--------+--------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Now, the following query will delete the reverse duplicate values from details_city table −

mysql> Select a.city1,a.city2 from details_city a WHERE a.city1 <= a.city2;
+-------+--------+
| city1 | city2  |
+-------+--------+
| Delhi | Nagpur |
| Delhi | Mumbai |
| Delhi | Katak  |
+-------+--------+
3 rows in set (0.06 sec)