How do I find duplicate values in a table in Oracle?

Another way:

SELECT *
FROM TABLE A
WHERE EXISTS (
  SELECT 1 FROM TABLE
  WHERE COLUMN_NAME = A.COLUMN_NAME
  AND ROWID < A.ROWID
)

Works fine (quick enough) when there is index on column_name. And it's better way to delete or update duplicate rows.

Aggregate the column by COUNT, then use a HAVING clause to find values that appear greater than one time.

SELECT column_name, COUNT(column_name)
FROM table_name
GROUP BY column_name
HAVING COUNT(column_name) > 1;

You don't need to even have the count in the returned columns if you don't need to know the actual number of duplicates. e.g.

SELECT column_name
FROM table
GROUP BY column_name
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1

Simplest I can think of:

select job_number, count(*)
from jobs
group by job_number
having count(*) > 1;

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