Finding duplicate rows in SQL Server
- by xtine
I have a SQL Server database of organizations, and there are many duplicate rows. I want to run a select statement to grab all of these and the amount of dupes, but also return the ids that are associated with each organization.
A statement like:
SELECT orgName, COUNT(*) AS dupes
FROM organizations
GROUP BY orgName
HAVING (COUNT(*) > 1)
Will return something like
orgName | dupes
ABC Corp | 7
Foo Federation | 5
Widget Company | 2
But I'd also like to grab the IDs of them. Is there any way to do this? Maybe like a
orgName | dupeCount | id
ABC Corp | 1 | 34
ABC Corp | 2 | 5
...
Widget Company | 1 | 10
Widget Company | 2 | 2
The reason being that there is also a separate table of users that link to these organizations, and I would like to unify them (therefore remove dupes so the users link to the same organization instead of dupe orgs). But I would like part manually so I don't screw anything up, but I would still need a statement returning the IDs of all the dupe orgs so I can go through the list of users.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks :)
