Question

I have a MySQL table with multiple fields, and I’d like to find any entries that duplicate a tuple.

I was initially thinking I could do this

select f1, f2, f3 from mytable t1 left join mytable t2  where t1.f1 = t2.f1 and t1.f2 = t2.f2 and t1.f3 = t2.f3; 

But then I realized that will just return all the rows in the table (I think).

I built an index on the tuple. My table has 1.2 million rows in it, if that makes a difference.

My SQL is not very strong. Help appreciated.

Answer 1

Perhaps something like this:

select f1, f2, f3, count(*) from mytable group by f1, f2, f3 having count(*) > 1 

I use MS SQL so the syntax might be off.