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May 152010
 

Find duplicated records in MySQL

Answer:

Assume you have a table `my_table` which contains a column called "name", how do you find what name has been duplicated in your table?

SELECT name, COUNT(`name`) as cnt
FROM `my_table`
GROUP BY `name`
HAVING cnt > 1

That's all.

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