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

To Delete the duplicate record in a table.

delete from job s 
where rowid < any 
(select rowid from job k 
where s.site_id = k.site_id and 
s.title = k.title and 
s.company = k.company);

or

delete from job s 
where rowid not in 
(select max(rowid) from job k 
where s.site_id = k.site_id and
s.title = k.title and 
s.company = k.company);

Answer 2

-- Here is what I used, and it works:
create table temp_table like my_table;
-- t_id is my unique column
insert into temp_table (id) select id from my_table GROUP by t_id;
delete from my_table where id not in (select id from temp_table);
drop table temp_table;

Answer 3

A solution that is simple to understand and works with no primary key:

1) add a new boolean column

alter table mytable add tokeep boolean;

2) add a constraint on the duplicated columns AND the new column

alter table mytable add constraint preventdupe unique (mycol1, mycol2, tokeep);

3) set the boolean column to true. This will succeed only on one of the duplicated rows because of the new constraint

update ignore mytable set tokeep = true;

4) delete rows that have not been marked as tokeep

delete from mytable where tokeep is null;

5) drop the added column

alter table mytable drop tokeep;

I suggest that you keep the constraint you added, so that new duplicates are prevented in the future.

Answer 4

I found a simple way. (keep latest)

DELETE t1 FROM tablename t1 INNER JOIN tablename t2 
WHERE t1.id < t2.id AND t1.column1 = t2.column1 AND t1.column2 = t2.column2;

Answer 5

The faster way is to insert distinct rows into a temporary table. Using delete, it took me a few hours to remove duplicates from a table of 8 million rows. Using insert and distinct, it took just 13 minutes.

CREATE TABLE tempTableName LIKE tableName;  
CREATE INDEX ix_all_id ON tableName(cellId,attributeId,entityRowId,value);  
INSERT INTO tempTableName(cellId,attributeId,entityRowId,value) SELECT DISTINCT cellId,attributeId,entityRowId,value FROM tableName;  
TRUNCATE TABLE tableName;
INSERT INTO tableName SELECT * FROM tempTableName; 
DROP TABLE tempTableName;  

Answer 6

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`);