LeetCode Delete Duplicate Emails, leetcodeduplicate
Write a SQL query to delete all duplicate email entries in a table namedPerson
, Keeping only unique emails based on its smallest Id.
+----+------------------+| Id | Email |+----+------------------+| 1 | john@example.com || 2 | bob@example.com || 3 | john@example.com |+----+------------------+Id is the primary key column for this table.
For example, after running your query, the abovePerson
Table shoshould have the following rows:
+----+------------------+| Id | Email |+----+------------------+| 1 | john@example.com || 2 | bob@example.com |+----+------------------+
In this case, there will be errors:
delete from Person where id not in (select max(a.id) as id from Person a group by email);
Runtime Error Message: |
You can't specify target table 'body' for update in FROM clause |
Last executed input: |
{"Headers": {"Person": ["Id", "Email"]}, "rows": {"Person": []} |
AC:
delete from Person where id not in (select id as id from (select min(b.id) as id from Person b group by email) as a);