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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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>>>>>>>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?

>>Ok, last try before I'll actually run a test :)
>>
>>select KeyID, count(*) as CntDups from yourtable group by KeyID ;
>>       having CntDups > 1 ;
>>       into cursor curDupes
>>if _tally>0 && There are dups in table
>>  index on KeyID tag KeyID
>>  scan
>>  if seek(KeyID,'YourTable',"KeyID") && should be always found
>>     * select YourTable
>>     delete in YourTable && One duplicated record is deleted now
>>   endif
>>   endscan
>>endif
>>use in curDupes
>>
>Looks like it'll work for one duplicate per KeyId. What if there're more than one?

See the highlighted part in the original question :) What was asked - that was answered, nothing more, nothing less :)

Of course, if we expand the original problem, I have to think a little bit more :)
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.


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