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Database Keys: Super Key

Keys are important in relational databases to establish relationships between tables and uniquely identify records. A super key contains attributes that uniquely identify records, candidate keys can act as primary keys to identify records, and the primary key is the main identifier chosen from candidate keys. Composite keys consist of multiple attributes to uniquely identify records, while secondary keys are other candidate keys not chosen as primary.

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Database Keys: Super Key

Keys are important in relational databases to establish relationships between tables and uniquely identify records. A super key contains attributes that uniquely identify records, candidate keys can act as primary keys to identify records, and the primary key is the main identifier chosen from candidate keys. Composite keys consist of multiple attributes to uniquely identify records, while secondary keys are other candidate keys not chosen as primary.

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Database Keys

Keys are very important part of Relational database. They are used to establish and identify relation between tables. They
also ensure that each record within a table can be uniquely identified by combination of one or more fields within a table.

Super Key
Super Key is defined as a set of attributes within a table that uniquely identifies each record within a table. Super Key is a
superset of Candidate key.

Candidate Key
Candidate keys are defined as the set of fields from which primary key can be selected. It is an attribute or set of attribute
that can act as a primary key for a table to uniquely identify each record in that table.

Primary Key
Primary key is a candidate key that is most appropriate to become main key of the table. It is a key that uniquely identify
each record in a table.

Composite Key
Key that consist of two or more attributes that uniquely identify an entity occurance is called Composite key. But any
attribute that makes up the Composite key is not a simple key in its own.
Secondary or Alternative key
The candidate key which are not selected for primary key are known as secondary keys or alternative keys

Non-key Attribute
Non-key attributes are attributes other than candidate key attributes in a table.

Non-prime Attribute
Non-prime Attributes are attributes other than Primary attribute.

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