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Delete Duplicate Records in SQL Server (Simple Guide) 🧹 How to Delete Duplicate Rows in SQL Server (Step-by-Step for Beginners) This simple guide shows you how to remove duplicate rows from a SQL Server table using a CTE (Common Table Expression) . 🎯 Step 1: Understand your table Imagine you have a table named Employees that looks like this: EmployeeID FirstName LastName Email 1 John Doe john@example.com 2 John Doe john@example.com 3 Jane Smith jane@example.com 4 Jane Smith jane@example.com Here, John Doe and Jane Smith each appear twice. We want to keep only one copy of each. ⚙️ Step 2: Find duplicates We’ll use a helper query called a CTE to find duplicate rows: WITH CTE AS ( SELECT EmployeeID, ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( PARTITION BY FirstName, LastName, Email ORDER BY EmployeeID ) AS rn FROM Employees ) SELECT * FROM CTE; This does the following: Groups rows that have the same FirstName...