>I am having a heckuva time trying to find duplicates in a client's table. It seems that they've had some corruption in their database as well, so I used VALIDATE DATABASE, which gave me a clue that their primary key wasn't in synch with referential integrity.
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>Isn't there a simple SQL statement I can use to find the dupes? This table is huge.
If the primary key is called MyPrimary, I would use something like this:
select MyPrimary, count(*) as HowMany;
from MyTable;
group by MyPrimary;
having HowMany > 1
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