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Updating records in FoxPro tables
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Visual FoxPro
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Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
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00565010
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00565080
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>>>I have some dupe records that are causing me problems and I need to delete one of the dupes for each record in several tables. Is there a way to do that without deleting each individual record by hand? Is there a way to do it using the command line?
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>>select KeyID, <b>recno() as RecNum</b>, count(*) as CntDups from yourtable group by KeyID ;
>>       having CntDups > 1 ;
>>       into cursor curDupes
>>index on KeyID tag KeyID
>>select yourtable
>>set relation to KeyID into curDupes
>>delete for found('curDupes') and recno()=curDupes.RecNum && One of the dupes would be deleted
>
>Unfortunately, this code would delete all duplicate records not just one of them.

Oops, what I was thinking :) Ok, how about new version (see changes in bold)
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.


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