Deleting duplicate rows from a table

Recently faced an issue of having duplicate rows in a table of production database. Normally to delete or insert data into table, primary key is used, but due to bad database design somehow duplicate rows got added. Exact same data, each column was same.

A little bit googling solved the issue.

delete from temp_table where rowid not in (select min(rowid) from temp_table group by column1, column2);

Note that this might not straight away work for a table with huge data. A simple way to solve that issue is to create a temporary table, say temp_table2, copy data for duplicate rows from temp_table to temp_table2. Now clean up temp_table2 using above delete command and delete all the duplicate rows form temp_table. Insert back all the remaining, cleaned up, rows from temp_table2 to temp_table.