DELETE 
FROM MyTable
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
              SELECT min(RowID)
              FROM Mytable
              WHERE (SELECT RowID 
                     FROM Mytable
                     GROUP BY Col1, Col2, Col3
                     ))
               );

DELETE 
FROM MyTable
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
              SELECT min(RowID)
              FROM Mytable
              WHERE (SELECT RowID 
                     FROM Mytable
                     GROUP BY Col1, Col2, Col3
                     ))
               );

有时使用软删除机制，其中记录日期以指示删除的日期。在这种情况下，可以使用UPDATE语句根据重复的条目更新该字段。

UPDATE MY_TABLE
   SET DELETED = getDate()
 WHERE TABLE_ID IN (
    SELECT x.TABLE_ID
      FROM MY_TABLE x
      JOIN (SELECT min(TABLE_ID) id, COL_1, COL_2, COL_3
              FROM MY_TABLE d
             GROUP BY d.COL_1, d.COL_2, d.COL_3
            HAVING count(*) > 1) AS d ON d.COL_1 = x.COL_1
                                     AND d.COL_2 = x.COL_2
                                     AND d.COL_3 = x.COL_3
                                     AND d.TABLE_ID <> x.TABLE_ID
             /*WHERE x.COL_4 <> 'D' -- Additional filter*/)

对于包含大约3000万行、重复量有高有低的中等数据表，这种方法非常适用。

创建具有相同结构的新空白表 像这样执行查询 插入tc_category1 SELECT * 从tc_category GROUP BY category_id, application_id count(*) > 然后执行这个查询 插入tc_category1 SELECT * 从tc_category GROUP BY category_id, application_id count(*) = 1

下面的查询用于删除重复的行。本例中的表以ID作为标识列，具有重复数据的列是Column1、Column2和Column3。

DELETE FROM TableName
WHERE  ID NOT IN (SELECT MAX(ID)
                  FROM   TableName
                  GROUP  BY Column1,
                            Column2,
                            Column3
                  /*Even if ID is not null-able SQL Server treats MAX(ID) as potentially
                    nullable. Because of semantics of NOT IN (NULL) including the clause
                    below can simplify the plan*/
                  HAVING MAX(ID) IS NOT NULL) 

下面的脚本显示GROUP BY、HAVING、ORDER BY在一个查询中的用法，并返回带有重复列及其计数的结果。

SELECT YourColumnName,
       COUNT(*) TotalCount
FROM   YourTableName
GROUP  BY YourColumnName
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
ORDER  BY COUNT(*) DESC 

在微软支持网站上有一篇关于删除重复文件的好文章。这是相当保守的——他们让你在不同的步骤中做所有的事情——但它应该适用于大的表格。

在过去，我使用了自连接来实现这一点，尽管它可能会用一个HAVING子句来美化:

DELETE dupes
FROM MyTable dupes, MyTable fullTable
WHERE dupes.dupField = fullTable.dupField 
AND dupes.secondDupField = fullTable.secondDupField 
AND dupes.uniqueField > fullTable.uniqueField