Remove duplicate rows in MySQL

Question

I have a table with the following fields:

id (Unique)
url (Unique)
title
company
site_id

Now, I need to remove rows having same titl

Answer 1

I had to do this with text fields and came across the limit of 100 bytes on the index.

I solved this by adding a column, doing a md5 hash of the fields, and the doing the alter.

ALTER TABLE table ADD `merged` VARCHAR( 40 ) NOT NULL ;
UPDATE TABLE SET merged` = MD5(CONCAT(`col1`, `col2`, `col3`))
ALTER IGNORE TABLE table ADD UNIQUE INDEX idx_name (`merged`);