SQLite3 - remove duplicates by multiple columns

I'm looking for the most efficient way to remove duplicates from a table where id's are unique but there are equal rows when you check other columns.

Example:

id   name   age   x
1   peter   25    II
2   peter   25    II

The table has tens of thousands of rows.

Supposing you have no foreign keys referencing that table, you could do something like

create table some_table as
select min(id), name, age, x
from t
group by name, age, x

then you can drop the old table, rename the new table so that it has the same name as the old one before, and create indexes and other things you need on that table.

StackExchange Database Administrators Q#101697, answer score: 5