Re: rowid value

  • From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: kibeha@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 11:23:12 -0700

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Kim Berg Hansen <kibeha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If the idea of deleting the "higher" ROWID is to delete the "newest" row,
> that is not at all certain. But if the rows are identical duplicates, that
> shouldn't matter ;-)


Probably this is already stated somewhere in this thread, but it bears
repeating.

Duplicate refers to PK/UK, not the row.

Identifying which 'duplicate' to delete it not always straight forward.



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