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I ran into this once and followed the guidance of this article to resolve: 
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<a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/139444" rel="ugc">https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/139444</a> 
 
I would advise testing on a test table first and ensure the results are what you expect. &nbsp;Another expert may be able to provide exact commands for your situation, but this should get you headed in the right direction.
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Let me know how this grabs ya: &nbsp;<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/15139/SQL-Server-Delete-Duplicate-Rows-Solutions.html" rel="ugc">SQL Server Delete Duplicate Rows Solutions</a>. 
 
Applied to your example and tested on my SQL 2012 box... 
<pre><code class="code-10 nolinks" id="code-20-41763865-1">IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#tmp') IS NOT NULL
	DROP TABLE #tmp
GO

CREATE TABLE #tmp (STOREKEY varchar(20), STORENUM int, BNMB int, STRT varchar(20))
GO

INSERT INTO #tmp (STOREKEY, STORENUM, BNMB, STRT) 
VALUES 
 ('NY1S05000010', 1001, 10, 'Spring Street'), 
 ('NY1S05000010', 1001, 10, 'Spring Street'), -- a duplicate row
 ('TX1S05000010', 5963, 10, 'Main Street') -- a row I just made up

-- Before removing the duplicates
SELECT * FROM #tmp

-- Delete the duplicates
;with cte as (
SELECT 
	STOREKEY, STORENUM, BNMB, STRT, 
	row_number() OVER (PARTITION BY STOREKEY, STORENUM, BNMB, STRT ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) as row_number 
FROM #tmp) 
DELETE 
FROM cte
WHERE row_number &gt; 1

-- After removing the duplicates
SELECT * FROM #tmp

 
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I've requested that this question be closed as follows: 
 
Accepted answer: 0 points for breeze351's comment <a href="#a41763880" rel="ugc">#a41763880</a> 
 
for the following reason: 
 
I had already thought of it. &nbsp;Thought there might be an easier way
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&gt;Ok, I thought there might an easier way to do it. 
Once the records are in the table, that's as easy as it gets. 
 
&gt;I just write a record to a new table, if the key is there, I don't write. 
To prevent this from happening before the write you can create a unique index on the four columns, but there are other considerations in play such as memory, speed of insert/update, graceful way to handle violations, etc. that may not make this practical. 
 
Another possibility is a trigger on the table to check inserts and updates, but if you're not comfortable with these then I'd recommend against them as it's added overhead.
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&gt;&gt; How it happened is beyond me. 
 
A couple of possibilities : 
1) There is a unique identifier as a key 
2) There is no unique index 
3) unlikely, but possible that an ALTER TABLE with NOCHECK has happened at some stage to disable constraints 
 
Looking at the data, it would appear that storekey should be enough to make that the unique / primary key. 
 
So, once you clean up the duplicates, it would be worthwhile to then create a unique index : 

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-41764353-1">create unique index PK_STOREKEY on &lt;your table name&gt; (STOREKEY)
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or if STOREKEY is not nullable (if it is, the above code works), create a primary key 

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-41764353-2">alter table &lt;your table name&gt; with nocheck add constraint PK_STOREKEY PRIMARY KEY (STOREKEY)
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Hope that helps a bit more with ways to avoid it happening again.
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I was having problems with a table and I realized that there are some duplicate records that need to be deleted. 
How do I do this if they are exact copies? 
 
STOREKEY &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;|STORENUM|BNMB|STRT 
NY1S05000010 |1001 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; |10 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; |Spring Street 
NY1S05000010 |1001 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; |10 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; |Spring Street 
 
I need to get rid of the 2nd one. &nbsp;The dupes are not all over the file. &nbsp;In other words, It only happens occasionally. 
How it happened is beyond me. 
 
Is there a quick script that I could write to get rid of these?
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I was having problems with a table and I realized that there are some duplicate records that need to be deleted.
How do I do this if they are exact copies?

STOREKEY          |STORENUM|BNMB|STRT
NY1S05000010 |1001             |10       |Spring Street
NY1S05000010 |1001             |10       |Spring Street

I need to get rid of the 2nd one.  The dupes are not all over the file.  In other words, It only happens occasionally.
How it happened is beyond me.

Is there a quick script that I could write to get rid of these?

Need to delete duplicate records

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