Thursday, January 17, 2008

Define candidate key, alternate key, composite key?

A candidate key is one that can identify each row of a table uniquely.Generally a candidate key becomes the primary key of the table. If thetable has more than one candidate key, one of them will become theprimary key, and the rest are called alternate keys.

A key formed by combining at least two or more columns is called composite key.

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