SQL statement to list duplicate contents

You will need this SQL statement to list all duplicate contents in a table

SELECT email,
COUNT(email) AS NumOccurrences
FROM users
GROUP BY email
HAVING ( COUNT(email) > 1 )

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If you want to list all duplicate records

SELECT t1.* FROM
`some_table` t1,
( SELECT documentno, COUNT(1) AS dup
  FROM `some_table`
  GROUP BY documentno
  HAVING dup > 1 ) AS t2
WHERE t1.documentno = t2.documentno;

Then how to remove the duplicate records?

1. Create new table and insert clean records (without duplicate)

CREATE TABLE new_table AS
SELECT * FROM old_table WHERE 1 GROUP BY [COLUMN TO remove duplicates BY];

Note: Be careful, this will create a table without primary key, auto-increment etc. So make sure you update your table after run this statement

2. Drop old table (with duplicates)

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