Write a SQL query to delete all duplicate email entries in a table named Person
, keeping only unique emails based on its smallest Id.
+----+------------------+ | Id | Email | +----+------------------+ | 1 | john@example.com | | 2 | bob@example.com | | 3 | john@example.com | +----+------------------+ Id is the primary key column for this table.
For example, after running your query, the above Person
table should have the following rows:
+----+------------------+ | Id | Email | +----+------------------+ | 1 | john@example.com | | 2 | bob@example.com | +----+------------------+
# Write your MySQL query statement below delete from Person where Id not in ( select Id from ( select Id, if(STRCMP(@prev, Email)=0, false, true) as Diff, @prev := Email from (select * from Person p2 order by Email, Id asc) x, (select @prev := '') y ) t where t.Diff=true )