Removing duplicate rows from table in Oracle

Question

I\'m testing something in Oracle and populated a table with some sample data, but in the process I accidentally loaded duplicate records, so now I can\'t create a primary ke

Answer 1

For best performance, here is what I wrote :
(see execution plan)

DELETE FROM your_table
WHERE rowid IN 
  (select t1.rowid from your_table  t1
      LEFT OUTER JOIN (
      SELECT MIN(rowid) as rowid, column1,column2, column3
      FROM your_table 
      GROUP BY column1, column2, column3
  )  co1 ON (t1.rowid = co1.rowid)
  WHERE co1.rowid IS NULL
);