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kishore415
Calcite | Level 5

HI..

    I have a sitation where I need to delete all duplicated records without keep one unique row.Can anyone help me to achieve this .

For example...

  id name dept

  1 aaa    xxx

  1 aaa    xxx

  2 bbb    yyy

  3 ccc    zzz

  3 ccc    zzz

  4 ddd    zzz

result should be

 

   id name dept

   2  bbb    yyy

   4  ddd    zzz

Thanks in advance....

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Ksharp
Super User

How about:

data temp;
input id name $ dept $;
cards;
  1 aaa    xxx
  1 aaa    xxx
  2 bbb    yyy
  3 ccc    zzz
  3 ccc    zzz
  4 ddd    zzz
;
run;
proc sql noprint;
 create table want as
  select *
   from temp
    group by id,name,dept
     having count(*) eq 1;
quit;
















data temp;
input id name $ dept $;
cards;
  1 aaa    xxx
  1 aaa    xxx
  2 bbb    yyy
  3 ccc    zzz
  3 ccc    zzz
  4 ddd    zzz
;
run;
proc sort data=temp;by id name dept;run;
data want;
 set temp;
 by id name dept;
 if first.dept and last.dept;
run;


Ksharp

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Ksharp
Super User

How about:

data temp;
input id name $ dept $;
cards;
  1 aaa    xxx
  1 aaa    xxx
  2 bbb    yyy
  3 ccc    zzz
  3 ccc    zzz
  4 ddd    zzz
;
run;
proc sql noprint;
 create table want as
  select *
   from temp
    group by id,name,dept
     having count(*) eq 1;
quit;
















data temp;
input id name $ dept $;
cards;
  1 aaa    xxx
  1 aaa    xxx
  2 bbb    yyy
  3 ccc    zzz
  3 ccc    zzz
  4 ddd    zzz
;
run;
proc sort data=temp;by id name dept;run;
data want;
 set temp;
 by id name dept;
 if first.dept and last.dept;
run;


Ksharp

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