Help with and update statement for duplication records (I dont want to deleted duplicates)
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I have a table that contains duplicate entries. I don’t want to delete the entries but update all of them except 1.
For example (This example has been simplified and my table is larger with thousands of records)
Imagine a table with 3 columns as per the below. Note: deleted Column can be 1 or 0 (yes or no), this is the column I’m trying to update.
IDNamedeleted
1Orange 0
2Orange 0
3 RED 0
4 RED 0
5 RED 0
I want all the duplicate records ‘deleted column’ to be updated to 1, so I would expect the output to be as follows. It doesn’t matter what entries is updated.
IDNamedeleted
1Orange 0
2Orange 1
3 RED 0
4 RED 1
5 RED 1
I can only find references to delete duplicates. Can anyone help?
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DECLARE @T TABLE(ID INT, Name VARCHAR(10), deleted INT)INSERT INTO @T(ID,Name)
SELECT 1, 'Orange' UNION ALL
SELECT 2, 'Orange' UNION ALL
SELECT 3, 'RED' UNION ALL
SELECT 4, 'RED' UNION ALL
SELECT 5, 'RED';
WITH CTE AS (
SELECT ID,Name,deleted,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY Name ORDER BY ID) AS rn
FROM @T)
UPDATE CTE
SET deleted=CASE WHEN rn=1 THEN 0 ELSE 1 END;
SELECT * FROM @T ORDER BY ID;
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Hi, not sure that will work as this table has thousands of records and your query lists the entries...assuming I'm reading it correctly.
this is where I have managed to get to regarding my problem.
I'm finding the duplicates using the following query.
select *
from mytablename
where
(name in
(select name
from mytablename as mytablename_1
group by name
having (count(name) > 1)))
order by name desc
this returns all duplicates. Im trying to change this to update the 'deleted' column in this table from 0 to 1 for all the duplicate entries, except one that will remain a 0.
the query I have, but doesn't work correctly is
update mytablename
set deleted = '1'
where
(name in
(select name
from mytablename as mytablename_1
group by name
having (count(name) > 1)))
but this basically updates ALL duplicates with a 1 in the 'deleted column' I only require it to update all duplicates except 1 that will keep a 0 in the deleted column.
Any ideas?
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I had some help with this, and this seems to work.
update mytablename
set deleted = '1'
where
(ID in
(select MIN(ID)
from mytablename as mytablename_1
group by name, deleted
having (count(name) > 1)))
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Not sure you understood myquery, but this should work
WITH CTE AS (SELECT *,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY Name ORDER BY ID) AS rn
FROM mytablename)
UPDATE CTE
SET deleted=1
WHERE rn>1;
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