Update one of 2 duplicates in an sql server database table

Question

I have got a table that got a column with duplicate values. I would like to update one of a 2 duplicate values so for example row1 = tom and row2 = tom

Answer 1

Try This with CTE and PARTITION BY

;WITH cte AS
(
  SELECT
      ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY Column1  ORDER BY Column1 ) AS rno,
      Column1 
  FROM Clients
)

UPDATE cte SET Column1 =Column1 +' 1 '
WHERE rno=2