What is the use of Surrogate Key in BO?

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What is the use of Surrogate Key in BO?..

Answer / d.shiva prasad

It is used for duplicate values in a data base primary keys
cannot be changed when a unique error occurs with the help
of this surrogate key a new column values will be created
and that will be as primary keys.

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What is the use of Surrogate Key in BO?..

Answer / ashish bhojane

The surrogate key is usually a natural number value, ascending starting from 1.

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