How to use CTE to remove duplicates --One use of Common table Expressions (CTEs) is to remove duplicates --To see this lets create a table 'Employee' CREATE table Employee ( name NVARCHAR ( 100 ) , age INT , salary INT ) --insert some duplicate data into the 'Employee Table'. INSERT into Employee VALUES ( 'Mark' , 42 , 120000 ) , ( 'Susan' , 29 , 125000 ) , ( 'Mark' , 42 , 120000 ) --you could see there is a duplicate record in the table by querying the table --select * from Employee --we could use CTE to remove this duplicate. WITH CTE_Employee ( name , age , salary , rownumber ) AS ( select name , age , salary , row_number ( ) OVER ( PARTITION BY name , age , salary ORDER BY name , age , salary ) AS rownumber from Employee ) DELETE FROM CTE_Employee WHERE rownumber <> 1 --query the table to see if there are still duplicates --select * f...