How do I find duplicate values in a table in Oracle?

Andrew_5662 0
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What's the simplest SQL statement that will return the duplicate values for a given column and the count of their occurrences in an Oracle database table?

For example: I have a JOBS table with the column JOB_NUMBER. How can I find out if I have any duplicate JOB_NUMBERs, and how many times they're duplicated?

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13 Answers

Aggregate the column by COUNT, then use a HAVING clause to find values that appear greater than one time.

SELECT column_name, COUNT(column_name)
FROM table_name
GROUP BY column_name
HAVING COUNT(column_name) > 1;
Bill_the_Lizard_12880

Another way:

SELECT *
FROM TABLE A
WHERE EXISTS (
  SELECT 1 FROM TABLE
  WHERE COLUMN_NAME = A.COLUMN_NAME
  AND ROWID < A.ROWID
)

Works fine (quick enough) when there is index on column_name. And it's better way to delete or update duplicate rows.

Grrey_61550

Simplest I can think of:

select job_number, count(*)
from jobs
group by job_number
having count(*) > 1;
JosephStyons_6720

You don't need to even have the count in the returned columns if you don't need to know the actual number of duplicates. e.g.

SELECT column_name
FROM table
GROUP BY column_name
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
Evan_62770

How about:

SELECT <column>, count(*)
FROM <table>
GROUP BY <column> HAVING COUNT(*) > 1;

To answer the example above, it would look like:

SELECT job_number, count(*)
FROM jobs
GROUP BY job_number HAVING COUNT(*) > 1;
Andrew_56620

Doing

select count(j1.job_number), j1.job_number, j1.id, j2.id
from   jobs j1 join jobs j2 on (j1.job_numer = j2.job_number)
where  j1.id != j2.id
group by j1.job_number

will give you the duplicated rows' ids.

agnul_60690

I usually use Oracle Analytic function ROW_NUMBER().

Say you want to check the duplicates you have regarding a unique index or primary key built on columns (c1, c2, c3). Then you will go this way, bringing up ROWID s of rows where the number of lines brought by ROW_NUMBER() is >1:

Select *
From Table_With_Duplicates
Where Rowid In (Select Rowid
                  From (Select ROW_NUMBER() Over (
                                 Partition By c1, c2, c3
                                 Order By c1, c2, c3
                               ) nbLines
                          From Table_With_Duplicates) t2
                 Where nbLines > 1)
user_60194170

I know its an old thread but this may help some one.

If you need to print other columns of the table while checking for duplicate use below:

select * from table where column_name in
(select ing.column_name from table ing group by ing.column_name having count(*) > 1)
order by column_name desc;

also can add some additional filters in the where clause if needed.

user_99526310

Here is an SQL request to do that:

select column_name, count(1)
from table
group by column_name
having count (column_name) > 1;
user_91664530
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