[thelist] Finding NON-unique values in MS SQL

Anthony Baratta Anthony at Baratta.com
Wed Jul 3 17:07:00 CDT 2002


At 02:54 PM 7/3/2002, Joel Canfield wrote:
>I have a table with three columns, ID, IDF, and IDT. All are integers. No
>number should be repeated in any particular column, although a number could
>conceivably appear in both IDF and IDT. I've added unique constraints, but
>if I recall correctly, when we realized that uniqueness was required,
>someone foolishly decided to add the constraint with no check on the
>existing data.
>
>I'm trying to come up with a query which would simply list all entries which
>appear in any particular column more than once. I'm stumped. It should be
>simple, I thought.

Select ID From TableName WHERE
  ID in (Select IDF from TableName)

Select ID From TableName WHERE
  ID in (Select IDT from TableName)

Or something like that.

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