candidate keys

A form of candidate key — In the design of a database table, a column (or an irreducible group of them) able to identify every row of the table, having a unique value or set of values in each row. One of the candidate keys (abbreviated CKs) will be the primary key.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of candidate key
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