Im trying to find a way to delete all duplicated entries in a table of my db. Cause I have to make some further calculations with this duplicates before I delete them, I will have to put them in a temporary table.
Retrieving of the duplicates is a rather complex sql statement, which I rather don't want do execute in active_record manner...
SELECT bad_rows. *
FROM settings AS bad_rows
INNER JOIN (
SELECT user_id, record_id, MIN( id ) AS min_id
FROM settings
GROUP BY user_id, record_id
HAVING COUNT( * ) >1
) AS good_rows
ON good_rows.user_id = bad_rows.user_id
AND good_rows.record_id = bad_rows.record_id
AND good_rows.min_id <> bad_rows.id
How can I generate this temporary table with this statement? Does it make sense to use ar-extentions for this task?