How to keep only one row of a table, removing duplicate rows?

Question

I have a table that has a lot of duplicates in the Name column. I\'d like to only keep one row for each.

The following lists the duplicates, but I don\'t know how to

Answer 1

You can join table with yourself by matched field and delete unmatching rows

DELETE t1 FROM table_name t1 
LEFT JOIN tablename t2 ON t1.match_field = t2.match_field
WHERE t1.id <> t2.id;