I am searching for a way to delete the duplicate records in a table..
Is anybody having efficient way to do it..?

Manoj Lonikar

The command is:

DELETE <duplicate_col_name> dv
FROM <table_name> a WHERE rowid <
  (SELECT MIN(rowid)
   FROM <table_name> b
   WHERE a.dv = b.dv);

i.e. if the table name is emp and the dupicate column value is ename:

DELETE ename
FROM emp a
WHERE rowid <
(SELECT MIN(rowid)
 FROM emp b
 WHERE a.ename = b.ename)

Another solution is:

delete from <table_name> where rowid not in (
select max(rowid) from <table_name> group by <duplicate_values_field_name>);

Rupjit

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