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Transact-SQL Programming and Query Writing Tutorial: Pt 1 - How to Delete Duplicate Rows in a SQL Server Table Using the Rank() Function

   Chapter: Design Patterns for Transact-SQL
Download! Skill Level: 500 (Advanced)
Duration: 08:00
Size: 9MB
Versions/Editions Covered: SQL Server 2005 , SQL Server 2008 , SQL Server 2000
Added/Updated: Nov 16, 2007

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Ever find yourself with multiple/duplicated rows in your SQL Server table? This video tutorial will show you the quickest way to get rid of those "imposter" rows by introducing you to the first couple of steps in the process.

Highlights:
  • How to identify the duplicate values
  • What does the RANK function basically do?
  • Where/when to use the RANK function
Tags for this video: duplicate function RANK rows values  
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This video is part of the following video series: "How to Delete Duplicate Rows In Your SQL Server Tables Using the RANK() Function and Common Table Expressions (CTEs)"
In this three-part series, our SQL author, Scott Whigham, shows you how you can delete duplicate rows in a SQL table using SQL Server 2005/SQL Server 2008.

NOTE: This is an advanced series requiring knowledge of correlated subqueries, HAVING/GROUP BY/AGGs, RANK(), ROW_NUMBER(), derived tables, and recursive Common Table Expressions (CTEs). It depends on you already knowing how to find the duplicates and shows you how you can delete these duplicate rows. For reference, the following videos may help prepare you:
To view all videos in this series, click here

About the Instructor:
Scott Whigham Scott Whigham is the founder of LearnItFirst.com, one of the web's most extensive video training libraries focusing on technical training. Scott is also an experienced consultant, trainer, and author with more than a decade of hands-on experience working with SQL Server databases, writing and debugging applications using Visual Studio, and performance tuning. Scott designed the architecture (websites, class libraries, and database) for the LearnItFirst.com websites and, most re... (Scott Whigham's full bio can be found on the About the Author page)

   
 
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