Define candidate key, alternate key, composite key?
Answer Posted / shiv om mishra
candidate key- is a combination of two attributes taht can be uniquely used to identify a datbase record without any extraneous data.
Each table may have one or more candidate key.
A candidate key of a relation tells us all teh set of all its attribute is a superkey.
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