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Finding Duplicates using SQL
While migrating old data to a new database schema I was unable to activate a PRIMARY KEY on the legacy_customer_id field because there were duplicates. It turned out that the old application did not clean the data really well, and it allowed duplicates to be created where one of the customer_ids had a space character […]
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MySQL FIND_IN_SET
I was faced with a field in the database that had a comma separated list of INT’s with a space after the comma. The application searched this field to generate the recordset to display on a web page. First I tried using LIKE, with something along this line: ($state_id is being passed by PHP) SELECT […]
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Cleaning duplicate records with SQL
I needed a way to clean out a MySQL table of records with duplicate email addresses. To do this I used a simple SELECT query inside of an INSERT. INSERT INTO good_users(email) SELECT DISTINCT(email) FROM bad_users