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    seanp13 is offline Novice
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    Internal dedupe

    Hi,


    new to all this, so any help most welcome!

    I need to internally dedupe some files and leave just one copy of each duplicate record in the database?

    Kind regards
    sean

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    Do some research on table design and normalization. You really need to be aware of the concepts involved.

    Excellent tutorial for database and table design

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    John_G is offline VIP
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    If the records are exact duplicates (i.e. all fields are the same), then you could make a totals query with group by on all fields, and use that query as the source for a new table containing no duplicates.

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