Summary: in this tutorial, you will learn how to find duplicate values of one or more columns in MySQL.

Data duplication happens because of many reasons. Finding duplicate values is one of the important tasks that you must deal with when working with the databases.

Setting up a sample table

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First, create a table named contacts with four columns: id, first_name, last_name, and email.

Second, inserts rows into the contacts table:

Third, query data from the contacts table:

In the contacts table, we have some rows that have duplicate values in the first_name, last_name, and email columns. Let’s learn how to find them.

Find duplicate values in one column

The find duplicate values in on one column of a table, you use follow these steps:

1. First, use the GROUP BY clause to group all rows by the target column, which is the column that you want to check duplicate.
2. Then, use the COUNT() function in the HAVING clause to check if any group have more than 1 element. These groups are duplicate.

The following query illustrates the idea:

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By using this query template, you can to find rows that have duplicate emails in the contacts table as follows:

This picture shows the output of the query that shows the duplicate emails:

Find duplicate values in multiple columns

Sometimes, you want to find duplicate rows based on multiple columns instead of one. In this case, you can use the following query:

Rows are considered duplicate only when the combination of columns are duplicate therefore we used the AND operator in the HAVING clause.

For example, to find rows in the contacts table with duplicate values in first_name, last_name, and email column, you use the following query:

The following illustrates the output of the query:

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In this tutorial, you have learned how to find duplicate rows based on value of one or more columns in MySQL.