Define candidate key, alternate key, composite key.

Answer Posted / jeevan kurmi

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.

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