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KEYS

By:-
Khushi Birla
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Keys
• Keys play an important role in the relational
database.
• It is used to uniquely identify any record or
row of data from the table. It is also used to
establish and identify relationships between
tables.
• They basically help in identifying the
relationship between tables.

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TYPES OF KEYS:-
1.Super Key
2.Candidate Key
3.Primary Key
4.Foreign Key

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SUPER KEY

• Super key is an attribute set that can uniquely

identify a tuple. A super key is a superset of a
candidate key.
• A super key may contain additional attributes
that are not require for unique identification.

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CANDIDATE KEY
• Candidate key is a subset of super key.
• A candidate is a single field or the least combination of
fields that uniquely identifies each record in a table.
• The candidate key must not be null.

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PRIMARY KEY style

• A Primary key is a subset of candidate key.

• Basically primary key is a candidate key chosen by
database administration for unique identification.
• A Primary key values can never be null.

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Super key= {Emp id, Mobile No. , Email}

Candidate key= {Emp id, Mobile No.}
Primary key= {Emp id}

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FOREIGN KEY
• Foreign keys are the column of the table used to point to
the primary key of another table.
• A foreign key is a primary key from one table that appears
as a field in another where the first table has a relationship
to the record.

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