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

delete dup row keep one table has duplicate rows and may be some rows have no duplicate rows then it keep one rows if have duplicate or single in a table. table has two column id and name if we have to remove duplicate name from table and keep one. Its Work Fine at My end You have to Use this query.

DELETE FROM tablename
WHERE id NOT IN(

 SELECT id FROM
(
    SELECT MIN(id)AS id
    FROM tablename
    GROUP BY name HAVING 
    COUNT(*) > 1
)AS a )
AND id NOT IN(
(SELECT ids FROM
(
SELECT MIN(id)AS ids
    FROM tablename
    GROUP BY name HAVING 
    COUNT(*) =1
)AS a1
)
)

before delete table is below see the screenshot: enter image description here after delete table is below see the screenshot this query delete amit and akhil duplicate rows and keep one record (amit and akhil):

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