Diff b/w surrogate Key and Primary Key?

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Diff b/w surrogate Key and Primary Key?..

Answer / uma

Primary keys are used in OLTP whereas surrogate keys are used in OLAP schemas.PKs hold some business meaning whereas SKs does not hold.PKs contain both numeric as wellas non numeric values whereas SKs contain only simple numeric values.

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Diff b/w surrogate Key and Primary Key?..

Answer / krishna

surragate key is a system generated primary key.

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