what is surrogate key give example?

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what is surrogate key give example?..

Answer / pavan kumar

A Surrogate Key is a system generated sequence numbers to
be used as primary keys.
A Surrogate keys are used in maintaining the full history
in scd type2.
A Surrogate key is also known as Synthetic Key or
Artificial Key or Dimensional Key.

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what is surrogate key give example?..

Answer / gopal

Surrogate key is system generated unique key to maintain the duplicates values.

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