mySQL query to find duplicate row

Question

Exmaple:

[empid    date      bookid]
----------
1        5/6/2004   8

2        5/6/2004   8

1        5/7/2004   8

1        5/8/2004   6

3        5/8/2004         


        

Answer 1

You can use:

SELECT DISTINCT id
FROM table
GROUP BY empid, bookid
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1

But it will give you duplicates. If, for example, you have 1-8,1-8,1-9,1-9 you will get 1,1 as output because empid 1 has duplicate bookid's for two distinct bookid values. You will need to use SELECT DISTINCT to filter out the duplicate empid.