Thursday, 23 August 2012

Candidate key and Alternate key ,Composite key

A candidate key is one that can identify each row of a table uniquely. Generally a candidate key becomes the primary key of the table. If the table has more than one candidate key, one of them will become the primary key, and the rest are called alternate keys. 
Composite Key: A key formed by combining at least two or more columns is called composite key.

Generally Candidate key is irreducible set of Super key, means you can't reduce more to make a primary key.and you can say it set of primary key because any one of them it can be a primary key. 
And rest of all called Alternate Key.

If you are unable to understand then we take an example and try to understand you.
if any table schema  is:  Student(a,b,c,d)
then we make set of primary key like this, then Candidate Key((a,b),(c,a),(a,b,d)) here you may be confuse but no problem ,it is only set of primary key, so any set of candidate key can be make a primary key. 
And if we make a set primary key(a,b) then rest of set is called alternate key.
and Composite key only those key which contains two or more than column of the table.

Here is example of Composite Primary Key......


CREATE TABLE Persons(
P_Id int NOT NULL,
LastName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
FirstName varchar(255),
Address varchar(255),
City varchar(255),
CONSTRAINT pk_PersonID PRIMARY KEY (P_Id,LastName)
)
This example is taken from w3schools.com....
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