Remove duplicates using only a MySQL query?

Question

I have a table with the following columns:

URL_ID    
URL_ADDR    
URL_Time

I want to remove duplicates on the URL_ADDR column

Answer 1

You may want to try the method mentioned at http://labs.creativecommons.org/2010/01/12/removing-duplicate-rows-in-mysql/.

ALTER IGNORE TABLE your_table ADD UNIQUE INDEX `tmp_index` (URL_ADDR);