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Just some random snippets of SQL I always have to search to find (or spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about). Will be updated as I find them…

Get number of duplicate records:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table WHERE id NOT IN    (SELECT MAX(id) FROM table GROUP BY col1, col2, col3);

Delete duplicate records:

DELETE FROM table WHERE id NOT IN    (SELECT MAX(id) FROM table GROUP BY col1, col2, col3); 

(Where col1, col2, col3 are the columns you’re looking for duplicates on – from Stack Overflow, tested with SQLite on ~10000 records, took <2s)