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>>No, it's not enough to de-dup on SSN + dDOB. We found cases there different patients have the same SSN & dDOB (perhaps, Identity theft cases, but it's not our job to report them). That's why I want to use a complex query. Also we may have situation when we changed address or added phone for patients. I want to preserve these records, even if it means we would not have them all properly de-duped. So, I want to save as much info as possible and de-dup based on the complex criteria rather than just SSN and DOB.
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>OK, I surrender
After trying various combunations of queries, I think, you're right.
I first have to do something like
select cPatients_fk, tEntered_Date, ;
tLast_Updated_Date from Patients ;
inner join ;
(select count(*) as cntDups, Patients.dDOB, Patients.cSSN ;
from Patients group by 2,3 having cntDups >1) step1 ;
on Patients.dDOB = step1.dDOB and Patients.cSSN = step1.cSSN
Then I'll join with the rest of the tables and then it would be clearer what to eliminate and what to keep.
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