Primary keys come from candidate keys. Each candidate key consists of the attribute or attributes used to label a distinct row in a table. Every candidate key should contain the fewest number of ...

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Under far too many circumstances, those responsible for modeling data are ignoring the above perspective on primary keys and are simply defining surrogate keys for everything in their data model. One ...