Removing duplicate rows from table in Oracle

Question

I\'m testing something in Oracle and populated a table with some sample data, but in the process I accidentally loaded duplicate records, so now I can\'t create a primary ke

Answer 1

solution :

delete from emp where rowid in
(
    select rid from
    (
        select rowid rid,
        row_number() over(partition by empno order by empno) rn
        from emp
    )
    where rn > 1
);

Answer 2

create or replace procedure delete_duplicate_enq as
    cursor c1 is
    select *
    from enquiry;
begin
    for z in c1 loop
        delete enquiry
        where enquiry.enquiryno = z.enquiryno
        and rowid > any
        (select rowid
        from enquiry
        where enquiry.enquiryno = z.enquiryno);
    end loop;
 end delete_duplicate_enq;

Answer 3

Use the rowid pseudocolumn.

DELETE FROM your_table
WHERE rowid not in
(SELECT MIN(rowid)
FROM your_table
GROUP BY column1, column2, column3);

Where column1, column2, and column3 make up the identifying key for each record. You might list all your columns.

Answer 4

DELETE FROM tableName  WHERE ROWID NOT IN (SELECT   MIN (ROWID) FROM table GROUP BY columnname);

Answer 5

delete from dept
where rowid in (
     select rowid
     from dept
     minus
     select max(rowid)
     from dept
     group by DEPTNO, DNAME, LOC
);

Answer 6

From Ask Tom

delete from t
 where rowid IN ( select rid
                    from (select rowid rid, 
                                 row_number() over (partition by 
                         companyid, agentid, class , status, terminationdate
                                   order by rowid) rn
                            from t)
                   where rn <> 1);

(fixed the missing parenthesis)