SQL remove duplicate row depend on certain value - sql

Question

I spend day in hope to figure out how to solve this query.
I have following table
ID Name Pregnancy Gender
1 Raghad Yes Female
1 Raghad No Female
2 Ohoud no Male
What I need is to remove duplicate (in this case 1,1) and to keep one of these rows which has a pregnancy status of yes.
To clarify, I can't use delete since it's a restricted database. I can only retrieve data.

Answer 1

Using an exists clause:
DELETE
FROM yourTable t1
WHERE
pregnancy = 'no' AND
EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM yourTable t2 WHERE t2.ID = t1.ID AND t2.pregnancy = 'yes');
There are other ways to go about doing this, e.g. using ROW_NUMBER, but as you did not tag your database, I offer the above solution which should work on basically any database.
If you want to just view your data with the "duplicates" removed, then use:
SELECT *
FROM yourTable t1
WHERE
pregnancy = 'yes' OR
NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM yourTable t2 WHERE t2.ID = t1.ID AND t2.pregnancy = 'yes');

Answer 2

If column Pregnancy have just two values "Yes" and "No", in that case you can use ROW_NUMBER() also to get the results.
;WITH CTE
AS (
SELECT *,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY id ORDER BY Pregnancy DESC) RN
FROM TABLE_NAME
)
SELECT *
FROM CTE
WHERE RN = 1
In case of multiple values when you want to give highest priorty to "Yes", you can write your query like following
;WITH CTE
AS (
SELECT *,ROW_NUMBER() OVER
(PARTITION BY id ORDER BY CASE WHEN Pregnancy = 'Yes' then 0 else 1 end) RN
FROM TABLE_NAME
)
SELECT *
FROM CTE
WHERE RN= 1

Answer 3

For this sample data you can group by ID, Name, Gender and return the maximum value of the column Pregnancy for each group since Yes is greater compared to No:
SELECT ID, Name, MAX(Pregnancy) Pregnancy, Gender
FROM tablename
GROUP BY ID, Name, Gender
See the demo.
Results:
> ID | Name | Pregnancy | Gender
> -: | :----- | :-------- | :-----
> 1 | Raghad | Yes | Female
> 2 | Ohoud | No | Male

Answer 4

Here is how you could do it in MySQL 8.
Similar Common Table Expressions exist in SQL Server and Oracle.
There you may need to add a comma after then closing parentheses that
ends the CTE (with) definition.
with dups as (
Select id from test
group by id
Having count(1) > 1
)
select * from test
where id in (select id from dups)
and Pregnancy = 'Yes'
union all
select * from test where id not in (select id from dups);
You can see it in action, by running it here
Note this does it without deleting the original.
But it gives you a result set to work with that has what you want.
If you wanted to delete, then you could use this instead, after the dups CTE definition:
delete from test
where id in (select id from dups) and Pregnancy = 'No'
Or distill this into:
delete from test
where id in (Select id from test
group by id
Having count(1) > 1) and Pregnancy = 'No'

Answer 5

1) First of all, update design of your table. ID must be primary key. This would automatically restrict the duplicate rows having same ID.
2) You can use Group by and having clause to remove duplicates
delete from table where pregnancy='no' and exists (SELECT
id
FROM table
GROUP BY id
HAVING count(id)>1)