Oracle - deleting duplicates

Question

I have found the following way for removing duplicates:

DELETE FROM
   table_name A
WHERE
  a.rowid >
   ANY (
     SELECT
        B.rowid
     FROM
        t         


        

Answer 1

In Oracle, ROWID is a pseudo column points to the physical location of a row. The query does a self join and fetches those rows which have the same value of column 1 & column 2 - with the assumption that these keys are enough to identify as duplicate row.

Once the rows are fetched, the query then deletes those rowids which are larger than the first row fetched, thereby deleting duplicates

Answer 2

Like this:

DELETE FROM         // The command to delete
   table_name A     //the table in which you want to remove duplicate
WHERE               //condition
  a.rowid >         //checking the rowid which oracle adds to each row. Oracle Database rowid values contain information necessary to locate a row.
   ANY (             //any row which has a condition
     SELECT          //select
        B.rowid      //rowid
     FROM             //from  
        table_name B    //table name with alias name as B. Is used for making a self join
     WHERE               //condition
        A.col1 = B.col1    //where the column1 has the same rowid 
     AND                    //and
        A.col2 = B.col2     //where the column2 has the same rowid 
        );