How do I delete all the duplicate records in a MySQL table without temp tables

Question

I\'ve seen a number of variations on this but nothing quite matches what I\'m trying to accomplish.

I have a table, TableA, which contain the answers gi

Answer 1

Thanks to jveirasv for the answer above.

If you need to remove duplicates of a specific sets of column, you can use this (if you have a timestamp in the table that vary for example)

CREATE TABLE TableA_Verify AS SELECT * FROM TableA WHERE 1 GROUP BY [COLUMN TO remove duplicates BY];

DELETE FROM TableA;

INSERT INTO TableA SELECT * FROM TAbleA_Verify;

DROP TABLE TableA_Verify;