SQL Server table should not contain duplicate rows according to best practices in database design. Sometimes, however, we need to deal with databases where these rules are not followed or where ...

Create a new empty table except set the fields that you don''t want duplicated as primary key and then dump the entire table from old to new and all the duplicated records will get bumped out as ...

The result set that is returned from that call looks like this: As you can see, the correct number of records for each group is returned but the second column value is the same for each row.