Question

RESOLVED! THANKS EVERYONE.

I need to search for duplicates – table as follows:

id, q1, q2, q3, text

id is unique and I am only interested in finding duplicates where the field text is the same.

Any suggestions as I have no idea where to start!

Thanks,

Homer.

Answer 1

This will return you duplicate values of text:

SELECT  text
FROM    mytable
GROUP BY
        text
HAVING  COUNT(*) > 1

This will return all records having duplicate values of text:

SELECT  m.*
FROM    (
        SELECT  text
        FROM    mytable
        GROUP BY
                text
        HAVING  COUNT(*) > 1
        ) q
JOIN    mytable m
ON      m.text = q.text