[sql] Finding duplicate values in a SQL table

It's easy to find duplicates with one field:

SELECT name, COUNT(email) 
FROM users
GROUP BY email
HAVING COUNT(email) > 1

So if we have a table

ID   NAME   EMAIL
1    John   [email protected]
2    Sam    [email protected]
3    Tom    [email protected]
4    Bob    [email protected]
5    Tom    [email protected]

This query will give us John, Sam, Tom, Tom because they all have the same email.

However, what I want is to get duplicates with the same email and name.

That is, I want to get "Tom", "Tom".

The reason I need this: I made a mistake, and allowed to insert duplicate name and email values. Now I need to remove/change the duplicates, so I need to find them first.

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The answer is


Try this:

SELECT name, email
FROM users
GROUP BY name, email
HAVING ( COUNT(*) > 1 )

The exact code would differ depending on whether you want to find duplicate rows as well or only different ids with the same email and name. If id is a primary key or otherwise has a unique constraint this distinction does not exist, but the question does not specify this. In the former case you can use code given in several other answers:

SELECT name, email, COUNT(*)
FROM users
GROUP BY name, email
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1

In the latter case you would use:

SELECT name, email, COUNT(DISTINCT id)
FROM users
GROUP BY name, email
HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT id) > 1
ORDER BY COUNT(DISTINCT id) DESC

Table structure:

ID   NAME   EMAIL
1    John   [email protected]
2    Sam    [email protected]
3    Tom    [email protected]
4    Bob    [email protected]
5    Tom    [email protected]

Solution 1:

SELECT *,
       COUNT(*)
FROM users t1
INNER JOIN users t2
WHERE t1.id > t2.id
  AND t1.name = t2.name
  AND t1.email=t2.email

Solution 2:

SELECT name,
         email,
       COUNT(*)
FROM users
GROUP BY name,
         email
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1

SELECT name, email,COUNT(email) 
FROM users 
WHERE email IN (
    SELECT email 
    FROM users 
    GROUP BY email 
    HAVING COUNT(email) > 1)

To Check From duplicate Record in a table.

select * from users s 
where rowid < any 
(select rowid from users k where s.name = k.name and s.email = k.email);

or

select * from users s 
where rowid not in 
(select max(rowid) from users k where s.name = k.name and s.email = k.email);

To Delete the duplicate record in a table.

delete from users s 
where rowid < any 
(select rowid from users k where s.name = k.name and s.email = k.email);

or

delete from users s 
where rowid not in 
(select max(rowid) from users k where s.name = k.name and s.email = k.email);

Try the following:

SELECT * FROM
(
    SELECT Id, Name, Age, Comments, Row_Number() OVER(PARTITION BY Name, Age ORDER By Name)
        AS Rank 
        FROM Customers
) AS B WHERE Rank>1

select id,name,COUNT(*) from user group by Id,Name having COUNT(*)>1

This should also work, maybe give it try.

  Select * from Users a
            where EXISTS (Select * from Users b 
                where (     a.name = b.name 
                        OR  a.email = b.email)
                     and a.ID != b.id)

Especially good in your case If you search for duplicates who have some kind of prefix or general change like e.g. new domain in mail. then you can use replace() at these columns


 SELECT name, email 
    FROM users
    WHERE email in
    (SELECT email FROM users
    GROUP BY email 
    HAVING COUNT(*)>1)

You can use the SELECT DISTINCT keyword to get rid of duplicates. You can also filter by name and get everyone with that name on a table.


In case you work with Microsoft Access, this way works:

CREATE TABLE users (id int, name varchar(10), email varchar(50));

INSERT INTO users VALUES (1, 'John', '[email protected]');
INSERT INTO users VALUES (2, 'Sam', '[email protected]');
INSERT INTO users VALUES (3, 'Tom', '[email protected]');
INSERT INTO users VALUES (4, 'Bob', '[email protected]');
INSERT INTO users VALUES (5, 'Tom', '[email protected]');

SELECT name, email, COUNT(*) AS CountOf
FROM users
GROUP BY name, email
HAVING COUNT(*)>1;

DELETE *
FROM users
WHERE id IN (
    SELECT u1.id 
    FROM users u1, users u2 
    WHERE u1.name = u2.name AND u1.email = u2.email AND u1.id > u2.id
);

Thanks to Tancrede Chazallet for the delete code.


SELECT column_name,COUNT(*) FROM TABLE_NAME GROUP BY column1, HAVING COUNT(*) > 1;


We can use having here which work on aggregate functions as shown below

create table #TableB (id_account int, data int, [date] date)
insert into #TableB values (1 ,-50, '10/20/2018'),
(1, 20, '10/09/2018'),
(2 ,-900, '10/01/2018'),
(1 ,20, '09/25/2018'),
(1 ,-100, '08/01/2018')  

SELECT id_account , data, COUNT(*)
FROM #TableB
GROUP BY id_account , data
HAVING COUNT(id_account) > 1

drop table #TableB

Here as two fields id_account and data are used with Count(*). So, it will give all the records which has more than one times same values in both columns.

We some reason mistakely we had missed to add any constraints in SQL server table and the records has been inserted duplicate in all columns with front-end application. Then we can use below query to delete duplicate query from table.

SELECT DISTINCT * INTO #TemNewTable FROM #OriginalTable
TRUNCATE TABLE #OriginalTable
INSERT INTO #OriginalTable SELECT * FROM #TemNewTable
DROP TABLE #TemNewTable

Here we have taken all the distinct records of the orignal table and deleted the records of original table. Again we inserted all the distinct values from new table to the original table and then deleted new table.


 select emp.ename, emp.empno, dept.loc 
          from emp
 inner join dept 
          on dept.deptno=emp.deptno
 inner join
    (select ename, count(*) from
    emp
    group by ename, deptno
    having count(*) > 1)
 t on emp.ename=t.ename order by emp.ename
/

try this code

WITH CTE AS

( SELECT Id, Name, Age, Comments, RN = ROW_NUMBER()OVER(PARTITION BY Name,Age ORDER BY ccn)
FROM ccnmaster )
select * from CTE 

A little late to the party but I found a really cool workaround to finding all duplicate IDs:

SELECT GROUP_CONCAT( id )
FROM users
GROUP BY email
HAVING ( COUNT(email) > 1 )

You may want to try this

SELECT NAME, EMAIL, COUNT(*)
FROM USERS
GROUP BY 1,2
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1

How we can count the duplicated values?? either it is repeated 2 times or greater than 2. just count them, not group wise.

as simple as

select COUNT(distinct col_01) from Table_01

This is the easy thing I've come up with. It uses a common table expression (CTE) and a partition window (I think these features are in SQL 2008 and later).

This example finds all students with duplicate name and dob. The fields you want to check for duplication go in the OVER clause. You can include any other fields you want in the projection.

with cte (StudentId, Fname, LName, DOB, RowCnt)
as (
SELECT StudentId, FirstName, LastName, DateOfBirth as DOB, SUM(1) OVER (Partition By FirstName, LastName, DateOfBirth) as RowCnt
FROM tblStudent
)
SELECT * from CTE where RowCnt > 1
ORDER BY DOB, LName

By Using CTE also we can find duplicate value like this

with MyCTE
as
(
select Name,EmailId,ROW_NUMBER() over(PARTITION BY EmailId order by id) as Duplicate from [Employees]

)
select * from MyCTE where Duplicate>1

To delete records whose names are duplicate

;WITH CTE AS    
(

    SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY name ORDER BY name) AS T FROM     @YourTable    
)

DELETE FROM CTE WHERE T > 1

If you want to find duplicate data (by one or several criterias) and select the actual rows.

with MYCTE as (
    SELECT DuplicateKey1
        ,DuplicateKey2 --optional
        ,count(*) X
    FROM MyTable
    group by DuplicateKey1, DuplicateKey2
    having count(*) > 1
) 
SELECT E.*
FROM MyTable E
JOIN MYCTE cte
ON E.DuplicateKey1=cte.DuplicateKey1
    AND E.DuplicateKey2=cte.DuplicateKey2
ORDER BY E.DuplicateKey1, E.DuplicateKey2, CreatedAt

http://developer.azurewebsites.net/2014/09/better-sql-group-by-find-duplicate-data/


This selects/deletes all duplicate records except one record from each group of duplicates. So, the delete leaves all unique records + one record from each group of the duplicates.

Select duplicates:

SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE
    id NOT IN (
        SELECT MIN(id)
        FROM table
        GROUP BY column1, column2
);

Delete duplicates:

DELETE FROM table
WHERE
    id NOT IN (
        SELECT MIN(id)
        FROM table
        GROUP BY column1, column2
);

Be aware of larger amounts of records, it can cause performance problems.


Another easy way you can try this using analytic function as well:

SELECT * from 

(SELECT name, email,

COUNT(name) OVER (PARTITION BY name, email) cnt 

FROM users)

WHERE cnt >1;

The most important thing here is to have the fastest function. Also indices of duplicates should be identified. Self join is a good option but to have a faster function it is better to first find rows that have duplicates and then join with original table for finding id of duplicated rows. Finally order by any column except id to have duplicated rows near each other.

SELECT u.*
FROM users AS u
JOIN (SELECT username, email
      FROM users
      GROUP BY username, email
      HAVING COUNT(*)>1) AS w
ON u.username=w.username AND u.email=w.email
ORDER BY u.email;

In case you work with Oracle, this way would be preferable:

create table my_users(id number, name varchar2(100), email varchar2(100));

insert into my_users values (1, 'John', '[email protected]');
insert into my_users values (2, 'Sam', '[email protected]');
insert into my_users values (3, 'Tom', '[email protected]');
insert into my_users values (4, 'Bob', '[email protected]');
insert into my_users values (5, 'Tom', '[email protected]');

commit;

select *
  from my_users
 where rowid not in (select min(rowid) from my_users group by name, email);

SELECT id, COUNT(id) FROM table1 GROUP BY id HAVING COUNT(id)>1;

I think this will work properly to search repeated values in a particular column.


How to get duplicate record in table

 SELECT COUNT(EmpCode),EmpCode FROM tbl_Employees WHERE Status=1 
 GROUP BY EmpCode HAVING COUNT(EmpCode) > 1

If you want to delete the duplicates, here's a much simpler way to do it than having to find even/odd rows into a triple sub-select:

SELECT id, name, email 
FROM users u, users u2
WHERE u.name = u2.name AND u.email = u2.email AND u.id > u2.id

And so to delete:

DELETE FROM users
WHERE id IN (
    SELECT id/*, name, email*/
    FROM users u, users u2
    WHERE u.name = u2.name AND u.email = u2.email AND u.id > u2.id
)

Much more easier to read and understand IMHO

Note: The only issue is that you have to execute the request until there is no rows deleted, since you delete only 1 of each duplicate each time


If you wish to see if there is any duplicate rows in your table, I used below Query:

create table my_table(id int, name varchar(100), email varchar(100));

insert into my_table values (1, 'shekh', '[email protected]');
insert into my_table values (1, 'shekh', '[email protected]');
insert into my_table values (2, 'Aman', '[email protected]');
insert into my_table values (3, 'Tom', '[email protected]');
insert into my_table values (4, 'Raj', '[email protected]');


Select COUNT(1) As Total_Rows from my_table 
Select Count(1) As Distinct_Rows from ( Select Distinct * from my_table) abc 

SELECT * FROM users u where rowid = (select max(rowid) from users u1 where
u.email=u1.email);

select name, email
, case 
when ROW_NUMBER () over (partition by name, email order by name) > 1 then 'Yes'
else 'No'
end "duplicated ?"
from users

try this:

declare @YourTable table (id int, name varchar(10), email varchar(50))

INSERT @YourTable VALUES (1,'John','John-email')
INSERT @YourTable VALUES (2,'John','John-email')
INSERT @YourTable VALUES (3,'fred','John-email')
INSERT @YourTable VALUES (4,'fred','fred-email')
INSERT @YourTable VALUES (5,'sam','sam-email')
INSERT @YourTable VALUES (6,'sam','sam-email')

SELECT
    name,email, COUNT(*) AS CountOf
    FROM @YourTable
    GROUP BY name,email
    HAVING COUNT(*)>1

OUTPUT:

name       email       CountOf
---------- ----------- -----------
John       John-email  2
sam        sam-email   2

(2 row(s) affected)

if you want the IDs of the dups use this:

SELECT
    y.id,y.name,y.email
    FROM @YourTable y
        INNER JOIN (SELECT
                        name,email, COUNT(*) AS CountOf
                        FROM @YourTable
                        GROUP BY name,email
                        HAVING COUNT(*)>1
                    ) dt ON y.name=dt.name AND y.email=dt.email

OUTPUT:

id          name       email
----------- ---------- ------------
1           John       John-email
2           John       John-email
5           sam        sam-email
6           sam        sam-email

(4 row(s) affected)

to delete the duplicates try:

DELETE d
    FROM @YourTable d
        INNER JOIN (SELECT
                        y.id,y.name,y.email,ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY y.name,y.email ORDER BY y.name,y.email,y.id) AS RowRank
                        FROM @YourTable y
                            INNER JOIN (SELECT
                                            name,email, COUNT(*) AS CountOf
                                            FROM @YourTable
                                            GROUP BY name,email
                                            HAVING COUNT(*)>1
                                        ) dt ON y.name=dt.name AND y.email=dt.email
                   ) dt2 ON d.id=dt2.id
        WHERE dt2.RowRank!=1
SELECT * FROM @YourTable

OUTPUT:

id          name       email
----------- ---------- --------------
1           John       John-email
3           fred       John-email
4           fred       fred-email
5           sam        sam-email

(4 row(s) affected)