Finding duplicate values in a SQL table
SELECT
name, email, COUNT(*)
FROM
users
GROUP BY
name, email
HAVING
COUNT(*) > 1
Simply group on both of the columns.
Note: the older ANSI standard is to have all non-aggregated columns in the GROUP BY but this has changed with the idea of "functional dependency":
In relational database theory, a functional dependency is a constraint between two sets of attributes in a relation from a database. In other words, functional dependency is a constraint that describes the relationship between attributes in a relation.
Support is not consistent:
- Recent PostgreSQL supports it.
- SQL Server (as at SQL Server 2017) still requires all non-aggregated columns in the GROUP BY.
- MySQL is unpredictable and you need
sql_mode=only_full_group_by
:- GROUP BY lname ORDER BY showing wrong results;
- Which is the least expensive aggregate function in the absence of ANY() (see comments in accepted answer).
- Oracle isn't mainstream enough (warning: humour, I don't know about Oracle).
try this:
declare @YourTable table (id int, name varchar(10), email varchar(50))
INSERT @YourTable VALUES (1,'John','John-email')
INSERT @YourTable VALUES (2,'John','John-email')
INSERT @YourTable VALUES (3,'fred','John-email')
INSERT @YourTable VALUES (4,'fred','fred-email')
INSERT @YourTable VALUES (5,'sam','sam-email')
INSERT @YourTable VALUES (6,'sam','sam-email')
SELECT
name,email, COUNT(*) AS CountOf
FROM @YourTable
GROUP BY name,email
HAVING COUNT(*)>1
OUTPUT:
name email CountOf
---------- ----------- -----------
John John-email 2
sam sam-email 2
(2 row(s) affected)
if you want the IDs of the dups use this:
SELECT
y.id,y.name,y.email
FROM @YourTable y
INNER JOIN (SELECT
name,email, COUNT(*) AS CountOf
FROM @YourTable
GROUP BY name,email
HAVING COUNT(*)>1
) dt ON y.name=dt.name AND y.email=dt.email
OUTPUT:
id name email
----------- ---------- ------------
1 John John-email
2 John John-email
5 sam sam-email
6 sam sam-email
(4 row(s) affected)
to delete the duplicates try:
DELETE d
FROM @YourTable d
INNER JOIN (SELECT
y.id,y.name,y.email,ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY y.name,y.email ORDER BY y.name,y.email,y.id) AS RowRank
FROM @YourTable y
INNER JOIN (SELECT
name,email, COUNT(*) AS CountOf
FROM @YourTable
GROUP BY name,email
HAVING COUNT(*)>1
) dt ON y.name=dt.name AND y.email=dt.email
) dt2 ON d.id=dt2.id
WHERE dt2.RowRank!=1
SELECT * FROM @YourTable
OUTPUT:
id name email
----------- ---------- --------------
1 John John-email
3 fred John-email
4 fred fred-email
5 sam sam-email
(4 row(s) affected)
Try this:
SELECT name, email
FROM users
GROUP BY name, email
HAVING ( COUNT(*) > 1 )
If you want to delete the duplicates, here's a much simpler way to do it than having to find even/odd rows into a triple sub-select:
SELECT id, name, email
FROM users u, users u2
WHERE u.name = u2.name AND u.email = u2.email AND u.id > u2.id
And so to delete:
DELETE FROM users
WHERE id IN (
SELECT id/*, name, email*/
FROM users u, users u2
WHERE u.name = u2.name AND u.email = u2.email AND u.id > u2.id
)
Much more easier to read and understand IMHO
Note: The only issue is that you have to execute the request until there is no rows deleted, since you delete only 1 of each duplicate each time