Source: https://leetcode.com/problems/delete-duplicate-emails/#/description
Description:
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 | +----+------------------+
Solution:
delete from Person where Id not in (select Id from (select min(Id) as Id from Person group by Email ) p );