>>>OK, here's my ever so often dumb Friday afternoon question.
>>>
>>>I ran the Sedna upsizing wizard to upsize a VFP database to SQL Server 2012 and it managed to create duplicate records, so I now need to delete those that are duplicates. There are only a few of them so I was going to manually do it in SSMS, but of course that won't work because there is no way to uniquely identify the record I am trying to delete.
>>>
>>>Any suggestions on how to do this?
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>>Did you create complete duplicates or some fields are different?
>>
>>You may try:
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>>;with cte as (select *, row_number() over (partition by Column1, Column2, Column3 order by Column1) as Rn
>>from TableWithDups)
>>
>>delete from cte where Rn > 1

>
>the entire record was duplicated (don't ask me how). I tried this:
>
>

;with cte as (select *, row_number() over (partition by nav_list, nav_item, nav_command, nav_image, nav_caption, nav_securityid, nav_active order by nav_list) as Rn
>from navigator)

>
>just to see what it returned, but I get a syntax error near ')'

You need to add

select * from cte

after defining the cte to see what is returned.