then it hit me how its done easily... so i thought i'd share it...
In English:
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-- Eliminating Duplicate rows --
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-- select all into a temp table.
-- truncate origional table.
-- select only unique rows back into origional table.
In Code sql server 2000:
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-- Eliminating Duplicate rows --
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- -- select all into a temp table.
- select * into temptable1 from <OrigionalTable>
- -- truncate origional table.
- delete <OrigionalTable>
- -- select only unique rows back inot origional table.
- --this usues the selected columns to see if its unique
- insert into <OrigionalTable> select Distinct <columnName> from TempTable1
- --this uses all columnsto see if its unique
- insert into <OrigionalTable> select Distinct * from TempTable1