"Francesco Moi" <fr**********@europe.com> wrote in message
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Hello.
I've got a 'books' table with 'id', 'name', 'author' and
'isbn' fields.
Due to an error, my books are duplicated, so I've got (e.g.):
430 - Moby Dick - Herman Melville - 0192833855
430 - Moby Dick - Herman Melville - 0192833855
528 - A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - 0141439602
528 - A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - 0141439602
And when trying to find a book by its name, I get two
entries instead of one.
I would like:
1) To set id as "unique id"
2) To temove the duplicates IDs from the table
Any suggestion? Best regards and thank you very much.
I'm reasonably new to MySQL (six months) but here is my twopence worth...
One solution (which wouldn't remove the duplicate keys) is to perform your
select query as you are now, but put a "GROUP BY ISBN" at the end of your
query statement... This should remove duplicate records being returned... I
think...
but if I had to do what you needed to do (and I stress *I* as this solution
may not be attractive in a large database environment) , I would make a copy
of the table - same structure, but have ID and ISBN in the new table set as
unique... I can program in PHP so I'd have it read your original table and
insert one record at a time in to your new table - duplicate INSERTs would
automatically then be ignored in the new table - I'd then replace the old
table with the new one... its not sexy, but it would work... however a large
database and/or a busy system could make this solution very very time
consuming.
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