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Find duplicate values in SQL Server

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How to find duplicate values in SQL Server.

Here’s a handy query for finding duplicates in a table. Suppose you want to find all email addresses in a table that exist more than once:


SQL
SELECT email,
 
COUNT(email) AS NumOccurrences
 
FROM users
 
GROUP BY email
 
HAVING ( COUNT(email) > 1 )

You could also use this technique to find rows that occur exactly once:


SQL
SELECT email
 
FROM users
 
GROUP BY email
 
HAVING ( COUNT(email) = 1 )

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