Define candidate key, alternate key, composite key?
Answer Posted / sonal singhal
Candidate keys-> A candidate key is a combination of
attributes that can be uniquely used to identify a database
record without any extraneous data. Each table may have one
or more candidate keys. One of these candidate keys is
selected as the table primary key.
Alternate keys-> 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.
Composite keys-> compound key (also called a composite key
or concatenated key) is a key that consists of 2 or more
attributes.
A composite Key can be either Primay or Unique
Key.More then One Key columns are said to be composite keys
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 9 Yes | 6 No |
Post New Answer View All Answers
What is dbms explain in brief?
Who are naive users?
Hi my program is accesing data from two db2 databases.what is the bind card for this program to genarate plan? how to specify the two owners and two qualifiers in bind card
Any sample or model question of punjab national bank for deputy manger IT or any sample of PNB.any1 plz do send on
Explain about query and reporting.
Explain about the storage and physical database design?
1. Using the XML Document below, with the URI “recipe.xml”
define
the following queries in XQuery:
a.) Give the names of all breakfast in the menu.
b.) Select breakfasts that have price lower than $7.00?
Does QTP Support the Propjects which are running in Dot Net? As we are starting with new project in Dot net need to use automation tool?Please advice & let me know what would be the best.
Explain about relational operator join?
How can you log an error to the server event log from a stored procedure?
What is the database development process?
Write the fastest query to find out how many rows exist in a table?
How to use timestamp datatypes
You have a table with three columns: amount1, amount2, and amount3 in a single row only one of these three columns will have a value and the other two will be null. Write a sql query to retrieve the values from these columns?
What is normalization? Explain different levels of normalization?