Subject | RE: [ib-support] need help deleting duplicate rows |
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Author | Mark Meyer |
Post date | 2001-11-05T15:31:40Z |
hi hellen and paul..
this is what we ended up doing.. it took us a little bit to learn how to
write IB scripts but eventually we got it to work. you need to know that i
am NOT the architect of this DB. i just inherited this
challenge/opportunity?
thx
mark
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this is what we ended up doing.. it took us a little bit to learn how to
write IB scripts but eventually we got it to work. you need to know that i
am NOT the architect of this DB. i just inherited this
challenge/opportunity?
thx
mark
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> What I would want to do is create a totally new, temp table
> with the structure I want, with a unique index over the
> columns I want to use to enforce uniqueness; then write a
> stored procedure to select only the rows I want to keep and
> pump their data into the new table.
>
> Then I'd drop the old table, recreate it and pump the data
> back from the temp table.
>
> regards,
> Helen
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