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What Is The Difference Between Primary Key & Super Key

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What Is The Difference Between Primary Key & Super Key..

Answer / manoj

Primary Key is a column which uniquely identifies all records in a table. For example EmployeeID column in an Employee table.

If you add another column to a PK, like (EmployeeID+FirstName) it still identifies identifies all rows uniquely, is known as Super Key.

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What Is The Difference Between Primary Key & Super Key..

Answer / tanmay dutta

Primary Key : Unique No. Not null.No duplicate.exam:Student_Id.
Super Key : Like (student_id + Student Name)

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What Is The Difference Between Primary Key & Super Key..

Answer / anil kumar dubey

A candidate key that uniquely identifies a row in a table is called primary key.
A superkey (composite key) is a combination of columns that uniquely identifies any row within a relational database management system (RDBMS) table.

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