How to clean up duplicates from MS SQL Database?
This article explains how to query and remove duplicate entries from a Microsoft SQL database using T-SQL. The same model works both for Azure Databases (in Azure SQL Query Editor) and databases on MS SQL Server (using SSMS – SQL Server Management Studio). I had to do this a while back due to a bug in an API creating multiple entities with the same content – save for the Identity field. Fun! Background Why bother? That’s a (somewhat) valid question. A table in a SQL…Continue reading How to clean up duplicates from MS SQL Database?