Write a SQL query to delete all duplicate email entries in a table named Person
, keeping only unique emails based on its smallest Id.
+----+------------------+ | Id | Email | +----+------------------+ | 1 | john@example.com | | 2 | bob@example.com | | 3 | john@example.com | +----+------------------+ Id is the primary key column for this table.
For example, after running your query, the above Person
table should have the following rows:
+----+------------------+ | Id | Email | +----+------------------+ | 1 | john@example.com | | 2 | bob@example.com | +----+------------------+
这道题让我们删除重复邮箱,那我们可以首先找出所有不重复的邮箱,然后取个反就是重复的邮箱,都删掉即可,那么我们如何找出所有不重复的邮箱呢,我们可以按照邮箱群组起来,然后用Min关键字挑出较小的,然后取补集删除即可:
解法一:
DELETE FROM Person WHERE Id NOT IN
(SELECT Id FROM (SELECT MIN(Id) Id FROM Person GROUP BY Email) p);
我们也可以使用内交让两个表以邮箱关联起来,然后把相同邮箱且Id大的删除掉,参见代码如下:
解法二:
DELETE p2 FROM Person p1 JOIN Person p2
ON p2.Email = p1.Email WHERE p2.Id > p1.Id;
我们也可以不用Join,而直接用where将两表关联起来也行:
解法三:
DELETE p2 FROM Person p1, Person p2
WHERE p1.Email = p2.Email AND p2.Id > p1.Id;
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参考资料:
https://leetcode.com/discuss/61176/simple-solution-using-a-self-join
https://leetcode.com/discuss/48403/my-answer-delete-duplicate-emails-with-double-nested-query