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  1. #11
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    Originally posted by ronnie

    select account_id, trade_date, settlement_date, amount, quantity
    from trades
    group by account_id, trade_date, settlement_date, amount, quantity
    having count(*) > 1
    in oracle we use

    delete trades a
    where rowid = (select max(rowid) from trades where
    account_id = a.account_id and trade_date = a. trade_date and settlement_date = a.settlement_date and amount = a.amount and quantity = a.quantity )

    so if you dont want to use rowid you can create a temporary field with unique values ( may be generated withsequence ) and use that value instead of rowid.
    Santosh Jadhav
    8i OCP DBA

  2. #12
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    Posted by Ronnie

    what if those are the requirements and you have to delete the data only after certain checks and balances are taken care of. :-)

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    The verification of checks and balances should be taken care of your application.
    As per the RDBMS theory (principle), every row must be uniquely identified by a key. That is why we create PK on all tables.

    There is an exception, i.e for temporary table. In which we truncate the table after its usage.

    A real and good banking application would check the current balance with the balance at the time of transaction started.
    Example:
    Time-00: Transaction started Balance $1000.00
    Store $1000 to a variable
    Time-01: Subtract $800.00
    Time-02: Update acct_table
    set balance = balance - $800
    where ac_id = id_num
    and balance = $1000;
    Time-03 if update fails, then some one has already withdraw money from the a/c. The balance is not $1000.Hence, the current transaction will not be executed. Raise error

    [Edited by tamilselvan on 05-22-2002 at 02:10 PM]

  3. #13
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    Originally posted by mrchrispy
    could you not create a table as select distinct (*) from original table and then either
    a) drop the original table and rename the new one (is this possible)?
    or
    b) truncate the original tables and populate it from the new table.
    yeah, why can't you do this? A distinct list eliminates the duplicates ...

    - Magnus

  4. #14
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    Yes I can do that and eventually will do that.

    I was just wondering if there is a way to do it in a single statement and I guess that there is'nt.

    Thanks
    Ronnie
    ronnie_yours@yahoo.com

    You can if you think you can.

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