SQL - select rows that have the same value in two columns

Question

The solution to the topic is evading me.

I have a table looking like (beyond other fields that have nothing to do with my question):

NAME,CARDNUMBER,MEMBERTY

Answer 1

You can use exists for this:

select * 
from yourtable y
where exists (
  select 1
  from yourtable y2 
  where y.name <> y2.name
    and y.cardnumber = y2.cardnumber
    and y.membertype = y2.membertype)

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Answer 2

What's the most efficient way of doing this?

I believe a JOIN will be more efficient than EXISTS

SELECT t1.* FROM myTable t1
JOIN (
    SELECT cardnumber, membertype
    FROM myTable
    GROUP BY cardnumber, membertype
    HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
) t2 ON t1.cardnumber = t2.cardnumber AND t1.membertype = t2.membertype

Query plan: http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!2/0abe3/1

Answer 3

If you just need to know the valuepairs of the 3 fields that are not unique then you could simply do:

SELECT   concat(NAME, "|", CARDNUMBER, "|", MEMBERTYPE) AS myIdentifier, 
         COUNT(*) AS count
FROM     myTable 
GROUP BY myIdentifier
HAVING   count > 1

This will give you all the different pairs of NAME, CARDNUMBER and MEMBERTYPE that are used more than once with a count (how many times they are duplicated). This doesnt give you back the entries, you would have to do that in a second step.

Answer 4

Since you mentioned names can be duplicated, and that a duplicate name still means is a different person and should show up in the result set, we need to use a GROUP BY HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 in order to truly detect dupes. Then join this back to the main table to get your full result list.

Also since from your comments, it sounds like you are wrapping this into a view, you'll need to separate out the subquery.

CREATE VIEW DUP_CARDS
AS
SELECT CARDNUMBER, MEMBERTYPE
FROM mytable t2
GROUP BY CARDNUMBER, MEMBERTYPE
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1

CREATE VIEW DUP_ROWS
AS
SELECT t1.*
FROM mytable AS t1
INNER JOIN DUP_CARDS AS DUP
ON (T1.CARDNUMBER = DUP.CARDNUMBER AND T1.MEMBERTYPE = DUP.MEMBERTYPE )

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