What Is The Difference Between Primary Key & Super Key
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Primary Key is a column which uniquely identifies all records in a table. For example EmployeeID column in an Employee table.
If you add another column to a PK, like (EmployeeID+FirstName) it still identifies identifies all rows uniquely, is known as Super Key.
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Answer / tanmay dutta
Primary Key : Unique No. Not null.No duplicate.exam:Student_Id.
Super Key : Like (student_id + Student Name)
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Answer / anil kumar dubey
A candidate key that uniquely identifies a row in a table is called primary key.
A superkey (composite key) is a combination of columns that uniquely identifies any row within a relational database management system (RDBMS) table.
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