Delete duplicate records from table in SQL Server using ROW_NUMBER()
In this article I will explain how to Delete duplicate records from table in SQL Server using ROW_NUMBER(). sometimes we required to delete duplicate records from a table . Suppose we have a table with some duplicate data GO SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tbl_Students]( [Id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [Name] [nvarchar](50) NULL, [Class] [nchar](10) NULL, CONSTRAINT [PK_tbl_Students] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( [Id] ASC )WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY] ) ON [PRIMARY] GO Now Create Query for delete and Excute it WITH Tempstudents(Name,duplicateCount) AS ( SELECT Name,ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION by Name ORDER BY Name) AS duplicateCount FROM tbl_Students ) DELETE FROM Tempstudents WHERE duplicateCount > 1 Snapshot After Excut...