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Informix DBA Survival Guide, Second Edition
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Informix DBA Survival Guide, Second Edition

by Joe Lumbley
December 1998
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
13h 3m
English
Pearson
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Find Duplicate Values in a Table

There are several reasons that you may want to find duplicate values in a table. The main reason is when you are attempting to build a unique index on a field and the index build crashes with a SQL duplicate value error. This error message does not go far enough in that it tells you it has a problem, but it does not tell you where the duplicate value occurs. All that you know is that you have a duplicate value somewhere.

There are several approaches to solving this problem, and one good method for avoiding it. If you initially build the table with a unique index on the field in question, you will avoid the duplicates in the first place. This requires planning ahead. You have to know in advance that you want field ...

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