>Thanks Sergey, that helps alot to find the dups.
>
>You wouldn't happen to know an easy fix to remove the extra dups from the columns?
Assuming that the first 2 updates happen on the same date and you want to keep the first one, try
SELECT LEFT(Narrative, CHARINDEX(LEFT(Narrative,14), Narrative, 20)-1)
FROM mytable
WHERE Narrative LIKE '%the following images were imported%the following images were imported%'
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