Richie2837
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Hi,
Our Contacts database has around 4000 individual contacts (and growing), which have been pulled together from four or five seperately maintained databases. As such there are bound to be duplicate records.
What would be a good way of querying the database to find duplicate entries (i.e. entries where the first name and surname are the same)? Short of putting everything in alphabetical order and manually scanning them to see if there are two names the same next to each other I don't know of a way to do it. Also, the manually-scanning method won't work if the names are spelled a little differently (Davies and Davis).
Any ideas?
Our Contacts database has around 4000 individual contacts (and growing), which have been pulled together from four or five seperately maintained databases. As such there are bound to be duplicate records.
What would be a good way of querying the database to find duplicate entries (i.e. entries where the first name and surname are the same)? Short of putting everything in alphabetical order and manually scanning them to see if there are two names the same next to each other I don't know of a way to do it. Also, the manually-scanning method won't work if the names are spelled a little differently (Davies and Davis).
Any ideas?
