Remove duplicate rows from table
By mistakenly , non-primary key table data inserted into SQL Table. what you will do ? We dun have any option without deleting it. If we not used Savepoint , then how to rollback inserted data ? Remove table , --- > No Remove rows one by one --> No Use CTE ( Common Table Expression) Query : I have inserted following data two times insert into [Test] . [dbo] . [Student] values ( 1 , 'nihar' , 'pune' ) insert into [Test] . [dbo] . [Student] values ( 2 , 'rohan' , 'nashik' ) insert into [Test] . [dbo] . [Student] values ( 3 , 'vishal' , 'pabal' ) Remove duplicate rows : Query : WITH OrderedResults AS ( SELECT [studno] , ROW_NUMBER () OVER ( PARTITION BY [studno] ORDER BY [studno] ) AS RowNumber FROM [Test] . [dbo] . [Student] ) delete from OrderedResults WHERE RowNumber!= 1 Select whole query and execute it, Duplicate entries will be removed from table. Think over it.