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From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
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Subject: Re: Removing duplicate rows in table
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On Tue, 10 Sep 2024, Francisco Olarte wrote:

> Do you have any kid of corruption (i.e, unique index violation) or is
> it just a duplicate problem?

Francisco,

Only a duplicate problem because when I created this table I didn't make the
proj_nbr column a PK.

> Also, if you do not have any uniqueness criteria consider adding an
> "id identity" column, it is useful when shit hits the fan.

Yep. that's what I will do.

Thanks,

Rich