What is a candidate key?

Answer Posted / subramanyam

A key that uniquely identifies rows in a table. Any of the
identified candidate keys can be used as the table's
primary key. Any of the candidate keys that is not part of
the primary key is called an alternate key. One can
describe a Candidate Key as a Super Key that contains only
the minimum number of columns necessary to determine
uniqueness.

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