Define candidate key, alternate key, composite key?

Answer Posted / kamal

candidte key has following character
1 it is a combition of attributes that used to identify a database record without any extraneous data.
2 it has ability to became primary key.
3 it uniquely identifies the row in a table .there can be more than one canditate key in table ,in which one should be a primary key.

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