what is the purpose of surrogate key and diff between primary
key&surrogate key



what is the purpose of surrogate key and diff between primary key&surrogate key..

Answer / suresh

primary-key:-
It represents one or more fields or attributes that uniquely identified each record in a database table.

surrogate-key:-It is a single part,artificially established identifier an entity,surrogate key assignment is a special case of derived data-one where the primary is derived.A common way that surrogate key values is to assign integer values sequentially.

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