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Find distinct records that are not distinct
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16/11/2007 15:16:04
 
 
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16/11/2007 15:03:33
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Visual FoxPro
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Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
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Thread ID:
01269536
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01269540
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>Huh? I know, its a strange subject line. Here's my problem. Through something of a snafu we have about 600 records in a table that are improper duplicates of other records. We want to remove them. This would be easy with select distinct EXCEPT that one field "sequence" was provided to create a unique sequence number for each record. So, they are all distinct because they all have different sequence numbers. I can get around this by selecting into a cursor, deleting the sequence numbers, and then selecting dist from the cursor. This gives me the truly distinct records albeit without the sequence numbers. Now I need to put the original sequence numbers back. Any ideas on how to do this?


Can you do something like:

Select max(seqfield), field1, field2, field3, etc from table into cursor crsrname group by field1, field2, field3, etc

Will that give you your distinct records?
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