【数据库查询】196. Delete Duplicate Emails

196. Delete Duplicate Emails

Write a SQL query to delete all duplicate email entries in a table named Person, keeping only unique emails based on its smallest Id.

+----+------------------+
| Id | Email            |
+----+------------------+
| 1  | john@example.com |
| 2  | bob@example.com  |
| 3  | john@example.com |
+----+------------------+
Id is the primary key column for this table.

For example, after running your query, the above Person table should have the following rows:

+----+------------------+
| Id | Email            |
+----+------------------+
| 1  | john@example.com |
| 2  | bob@example.com  |
+----+------------------+

 一开始我以为只是简单SELECT出来然后执行DELETE，这样居然不行，会报错“You can’t specify target table for update in FROM clause“，原因是在MYSQL中，不能先select一个表的记录，在按此条件进行更新和删除同一个表的记录。解决办法是，将select得到的结果，再通过中间表select一遍，这样就避免了错误，这个问题只出现于mysql，ms sql和oracle不会出现此问题。

# Write your MySQL query statement below
DELETE FROM Person
WHERE Id IN (SELECT a.Id FROM (
                SELECT p1.Id FROM Person p1, Person p2
                WHERE p1.Id > p2.Id AND p1.Email = p2.Email) AS a
             );