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Delete Duplicate data in an access database -

Hi all

I have written a program that imports data from a text file into an access database, what i want to know is if it possible once the text file has been imported to check to see if there is any duplicate values in the databse and if there is duplicate values to delete it , so there will only be one unique value at all times.

Is this possible

 

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