# Removing Duplicates[¶](https://knowledge.dataiku.com/latest/courses/resources/excel-to-dss/duplicates.html#removing-duplicates "Permalink to this headline")

Excel can remove duplicate values, using all columns or a subset to determine uniqueness of a row. Duplicates are simply removed, with no way to recover them later.

Dataiku’s **Distinct recipe** identifies and removes duplicate rows within a dataset. Additionally, it can track which rows had duplicates, and how many, in the original dataset.

See also

Distinct recipe lessons in the Visual Recipes 101 course

Distinct recipe in the reference documentation
