Posted by Radu on 07/19/07 20:28

Hi.

I have a "union" table which results of a union of two tables.
Occasionally I could have duplicates, when the same PIN has been added
to both tables, albeit at different Datees/Times, such as:

PIN Name Added Date
100411 A 7/11/2007 10:12:58 AM
100411 A 7/17/2007 10:54:23 AM
100413 B 7/11/2007 10:13:28 AM
100413 B 7/17/2007 10:54:39 AM
104229 C 7/6/2007 2:34:13 PM
104231 D 7/6/2007 2:34:25 PM
104869 E 6/10/2007 11:59:12 AM
104869 E 6/22/2007 2:40:18 PM

The question is - how can I delete by queries the first occurence
(time-wise) of these duplicates - i.e. I would want to delete the
first occurence of 100411 (A), the first occurence of 100413 (B), and
the first occurence of 104869 (E) in the example above - records C and
D show only once, so they are fine.

Is there a MsAccess solution ? Is there a SQL-server solution ?

Thank you very much !
Alex

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