MySQL对引用要删除的表有限制。你可以用一个临时表来解决这个问题，比如:

create temporary table tmpTable (id int);

insert  into tmpTable
        (id)
select  id
from    YourTable yt
where   exists
        (
        select  *
        from    YourTabe yt2
        where   yt2.title = yt.title
                and yt2.company = yt.company
                and yt2.site_id = yt.site_id
                and yt2.id > yt.id
        );

delete  
from    YourTable
where   ID in (select id from tmpTable);

以下是Kostanos在评论中的建议: 上面唯一缓慢的查询是DELETE，适用于数据库非常大的情况。这个查询可以更快:

DELETE FROM YourTable USING YourTable, tmpTable WHERE YourTable.id=tmpTable.id

你可以很容易地从这个代码中删除重复的记录。

$qry = mysql_query("SELECT * from cities");
while($qry_row = mysql_fetch_array($qry))
{
$qry2 = mysql_query("SELECT * from cities2 where city = '".$qry_row['city']."'");

if(mysql_num_rows($qry2) > 1){
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($qry2)){
        $city_arry[] = $row;

        }

    $total = sizeof($city_arry) - 1;
        for($i=1; $i<=$total; $i++){


            mysql_query( "delete from cities2 where town_id = '".$city_arry[$i][0]."'");

            }
    }
    //exit;
}

简单和快速的所有情况:

CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS _temp_duplicates AS (SELECT dub.id FROM table_with_duplications dub GROUP BY dub.field_must_be_uniq_1, dub.field_must_be_uniq_2 HAVING COUNT(*)  > 1);

DELETE FROM table_with_duplications WHERE id IN (SELECT id FROM _temp_duplicates);

我有这个查询片段的SQLServer，但我认为它可以用在其他DBMS与小的变化:

DELETE
FROM Table
WHERE Table.idTable IN  (  
    SELECT MAX(idTable)
    FROM idTable
    GROUP BY field1, field2, field3
    HAVING COUNT(*) > 1)

我忘了告诉您，这个查询不会删除重复行中id最低的行。如果这对你有用，试试这个查询:

DELETE
FROM jobs
WHERE jobs.id IN  (  
    SELECT MAX(id)
    FROM jobs
    GROUP BY site_id, company, title, location
    HAVING COUNT(*) > 1)

如果你有一个有大量记录的大表，那么上述解决方案将不起作用或花费太多时间。然后我们有一个不同的解

-- Create temporary table

CREATE TABLE temp_table LIKE table1;

-- Add constraint
ALTER TABLE temp_table ADD UNIQUE(title, company,site_id);

-- Copy data
INSERT IGNORE INTO temp_table SELECT * FROM table1;

-- Rename and drop
RENAME TABLE table1 TO old_table1, temp_table TO table1;
DROP TABLE old_table1;

一种简单易懂且不需要主键的解决方案:

add a new boolean column alter table mytable add tokeep boolean; add a constraint on the duplicated columns AND the new column alter table mytable add constraint preventdupe unique (mycol1, mycol2, tokeep); set the boolean column to true. This will succeed only on one of the duplicated rows because of the new constraint update ignore mytable set tokeep = true; delete rows that have not been marked as tokeep delete from mytable where tokeep is null; drop the added column alter table mytable drop tokeep;

我建议您保留您添加的约束，以便将来防止出现新的重复。