Duplicate in material no

Dear Experts,
We have taken restart of MDM server. Now when we are trying to upload the repository for material it is giving error u201Ccannot set unique constrain on material no because duplicate record existu201D. We remove this condition from console temporarily to find out duplicate record in MDM. We checked duplicate by matching record u2018All vs Allu2019, it has not given any duplicate but still error remains the same.
We only want to UP the repository with unique constrain on material no. Kindly help to find out duplicate in material no in master data manager.
Regards,
Gaurang

Hi Gaurang,
I am detailing the steps from note below and also including my comments in bold:
As the report mentions, Verify->Repair will automatically perform the following:
1. Remove the Unique field so that repository can be loaded.
2. Add a new integer field and populate numbers for the duplicate records only. All records with same number are duplicates for the same value.
The addition of a integer field is automatic and it creates a duplicate label for duplicate records,it is populated for duplicated records,only for helping you delete those records with problem
The user should perform the following:
These are the steps you have to do:
1. Load the repository (Update indices option).
2. Inspect the duplicate values in the table with Data Manager with the help of new field
3. Fix the duplicate problem by removing the duplicated records.
4. Unload the repository
5. Remove the new field and add back the unique constraint.This new field is the duplicate label field created automatically,delete that.
6. Load the repository with Update Indices option.
This sums it up,dont forget to take backup before you do a repair.
Hope it helps.
Thanks,
Ravi

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