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Delete duplicate based on time submitted help

BMartinCOE
6 - Meteoroid

Hello!

 

I am working with a dataset that contains duplicates it looks something like this:

 

Building IDField 1Field 2

1

1234 Maple St7:00pm 6-6-2022
2123 Yellow St6:00pm 4-5-2022

1

123 Blue St5:33pm 2-5-2022

2

123 Yellow St3:00pm 6-6-2022

3

123 Green Ave3:00pm 4-5-2022

1

1234 Maple St7:10pm 6-6-2022

 

I am trying to remove duplicate based on multiple columns. Some users submit data with the same ID and the same address but it has been submitted at a later time. I am looking to remove the early time as I assume the more recent submission is their intended submission (ex: would want to remove the older 1234 yellow st). This becomes more complicated because some users submit data with the same building ID for different addresses (ex: building ID 1 has two different address but 3 different submissions). In this case it should end up with two submissions, removing the older duplicated address.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can clean this up?

 

Thanks

 

*Edit: it is okay for their to be duplicate building ID, it is not okay for their to be duplicate field 1

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geraldo
13 - Pulsar

@BMartinCOE 

 

 

AN worflow example

 

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