How to obtain the unique combinations of two columns in a table

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Hi,
I am trying to obtain all the unique combinations of two columns in a table. Lets say we have the following table:
year = {1994, 1994, 1994, 1995, 1995, 1995, 1996, 1996, 1996}.';
type = {'AA', 'BB', 'CC', 'BB', 'BB', 'BB', 'AA', 'CC', 'CC'}.';
t = table(year, type);
How can I extract the unique combinations of 'year' and 'type' in order to get something like this:
year = {1994, 1994, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1996}.';
type = {'AA', 'BB', 'CC', 'BB', 'AA', 'CC'}.';
answer = table(year, type);
Thank you

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dpb
dpb on 9 Aug 2019
year = [1994, 1994, 1994, 1995, 1995, 1995, 1996, 1996, 1996].';
type = {'AA', 'BB', 'CC', 'BB', 'BB', 'BB', 'AA', 'CC', 'CC'}.';
t = table(year, type);
>> unique(t,'rows')
ans =
6×2 table
year type
____ ____
1994 'AA'
1994 'BB'
1994 'CC'
1995 'BB'
1996 'AA'
1996 'CC'
>>

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