what is candidate key & primary key,different b/t the two?

Answer Posted / parijatha

there is no difference between the candidate and primary key
as both derives all other attributes in the relation.The
concept of primary key came into account to make the search
easy the is whenever a candidate key is declared as primary
key the primary key attribute gets sorted which reduces the
response time

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