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I have a list of strings in my database let say in a column

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I'm trying to find out How to delist subset strings if it is a substring of another string with sql?

So I if we pretend that this is a column of my table, the end result must be only

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If you want to delete all records except shown then try something similar to

DELETE dataset.table t1
WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT 1
               FROM dataset.table t2
               WHERE t2.word LIKE CONCAT(t1.word, '_%') )

If you want to select only shown record use

SELECT *
FROM dataset.table t1
WHERE NOT EXISTS ( SELECT 1
                   FROM dataset.table t2
                   WHERE t2.word LIKE CONCAT(t1.word, '_%') )
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  • DELETE ???????? – SNaRe Nov 22 '19 at 14:50
  • @SNaRe You want that the table contains one record only in the result state - i.e. all another are to be deleted. Or you want something else? – Akina Nov 22 '19 at 15:06
  • I don't want them to be deleted but I want them to be filtered. – SNaRe Nov 22 '19 at 15:15

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