>>>>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?
>>>
>>>Did you create complete duplicates or some fields are different?
>>>
>>>You may try:
>>>

>>>;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.

thanks!