MySQL delete duplicate records but keep latest

Question

I have unique id and email fields. Emails get duplicated. I only want to keep one Email address of all the duplicates but with the latest id<

Answer 1

DELIMITER // 
CREATE FUNCTION findColumnNames(tableName VARCHAR(255))
RETURNS TEXT
BEGIN
    SET @colNames = "";
     SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(COLUMN_NAME) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.columns
        WHERE TABLE_NAME = tableName
        GROUP BY TABLE_NAME INTO @colNames;
    RETURN @colNames;
END // 
DELIMITER ;

DELIMITER // 
CREATE PROCEDURE deleteDuplicateRecords (IN tableName VARCHAR(255))
BEGIN
    SET @colNames = findColumnNames(tableName);
    SET @addIDStmt = CONCAT("ALTER TABLE ",tableName," ADD COLUMN id INT AUTO_INCREMENT KEY;");
    SET @deleteDupsStmt = CONCAT("DELETE FROM ",tableName," WHERE id NOT IN 
        ( SELECT * FROM ",
            " (SELECT min(id) FROM ",tableName," group by ",findColumnNames(tableName),") AS tmpTable);");
    set @dropIDStmt = CONCAT("ALTER TABLE ",tableName," DROP COLUMN id");

    PREPARE addIDStmt FROM @addIDStmt;
    EXECUTE addIDStmt;

    PREPARE deleteDupsStmt FROM @deleteDupsStmt;
    EXECUTE deleteDupsStmt;

    PREPARE dropIDStmt FROM @dropIDStmt;
    EXECUTE dropIDstmt;

END // 
DELIMITER ;

Nice stored procedure I created for deleting all duplicate records of a table without needing an existing unique id on that table.

CALL deleteDuplicateRecords("yourTableName");