Define candidate key, alternate key, composite key?
Answer Posted / ramesh
A composite Key can be either Primay or Unique Key
More then One Key columns are said to be composite keys
Candidate Key(Primary Key) is a Key which Maintains the Row
Uniue .Can be defined based on the Entity
Alternate Key or Unique Key is similar to PK ,except it
accepts null Values .So that the records can still be
entered submitting null values to this attribute.
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