Removing duplicate rows from table in Oracle
DELETE FROM tablename a
WHERE a.ROWID > ANY (SELECT b.ROWID
FROM tablename b
WHERE a.fieldname = b.fieldname
AND a.fieldname2 = b.fieldname2)
Use the rowid
pseudocolumn.
DELETE FROM your_table
WHERE rowid not in
(SELECT MIN(rowid)
FROM your_table
GROUP BY column1, column2, column3);
Where column1
, column2
, and column3
make up the identifying key for each record. You might list all your columns.
From Ask Tom
delete from t
where rowid IN ( select rid
from (select rowid rid,
row_number() over (partition by
companyid, agentid, class , status, terminationdate
order by rowid) rn
from t)
where rn <> 1);
(fixed the missing parenthesis)
From DevX.com:
DELETE FROM our_table
WHERE rowid not in
(SELECT MIN(rowid)
FROM our_table
GROUP BY column1, column2, column3...) ;
Where column1, column2, etc. is the key you want to use.