Subject need help deleting duplicate rows
Author Mark Meyer
hello everyone..

i am new to IB.

as a result of a very large conversion project - we have a Service_fees
table that has several instances of dupicate rows. originally we thought it
would be easy to identify and delete the dups - but this has not been the
case.

we were able to identify them easily enough with the following sql (see
below) - but deleting them has been more of a challenge.

i have tried writing a delphi program - but we keep getting an exception
when we try to delete one of the dups. basically the error message from
delphi is - i was expecting 1 row but i got back multiple rows - which one
do you really want me to delete.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

thx
mark


CREATE TABLE SERVICE_FEES (
SERVICE_KEY REQUIRED_LONG,
FEE_KEY REQUIRED_LONG,
FEE_AMOUNT MONIES,
WAIVED CHAR_1,
FLIGHT_KEY REQUIRED_LONG
)

CREATE ASCENDING INDEX SERVICE_FEESINDEX1 ON SERVICE_FEES (SERVICE_KEY,
FLIGHT_KEY)


select
count(*),
a.service_key,
a.fee_key,
b.service_type
from
service_fees a,
services b
where
b.service_key = a.service_key
group by
a.service_key,
a.fee_key,
b.service_type
having
count(*) > 1


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