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Topic : Database
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Database Keys
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1. Super Key = Many Attributes
2. Candidate Key = One Attribute (Part of Super Key)
3. Primary key = Unique/Not Null/Not Repeat
4. Composite Key = Combination of PK
5. Foreign Key = 2 Table
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Database Keys
1. Super key
✓ A super key is a group of single
or multiple keys which
identifies rows in a table.
✓ The super key would be Arora Educator
EMPLOYEE-ID, (EMPLOYEE_ID,
EMPLOYEE-NAME), etc.
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2. Candidate key
✓ Candidate key can be a
single column or
combination of more
than one column.
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3. Primary key
✓ The Primary Key can't be a duplicate.
✓ A table cannot have more than one primary key.
✓ The primary key field cannot be null.
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4. Composite Key
✓ When there is no primary key = Join attributes and
create a primary key.
✓ Or..Collection of primary key.
✓ ATM Card + PIN
✓ Username + OTP om mobile
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5. Foreign key
✓ Foreign keys are the column of
the table which is used to point to
the primary key of another table.
✓ in the EMPLOYEE table,
Department_Id is the foreign key,
and both the tables are related.
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Q.40. Which statement is wrong about PRIMARY KEY
constraint in SQL? Arora Educator
1) The PRIMARY KEY uniquely identifies each record in
a SQL database table
2) Primary key can be made based on multiple
columns
3) Primary key must be made of any single columns
4) Primary keys must contain UNIQUE values.
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Q.41. Which is/are correct statements about primary
key of a table? Arora Educator
1) Primary keys can contain NULL values
2) Primary keys cannot contain NULL values.
3) A table can have only one primary key with single or
multiple fields
4) A table can have multiple primary keys with single
or multiple fields
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Q.42 What is the difference between a PRIMARY KEY
and a UNIQUE KEY? Arora Educator
1) Primary key can store null value, whereas a unique
key cannot store null value.
2) We can have only one primary key in a table while
we can have multiple unique keys
3) Primary key cannot be a date variable whereas
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4) None of these
5) All of these
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Q.43. Which of the following are the synonyms for
Column and ROW of a table? Arora Educator
1) Row = [Tuple, Record]
2) Column = [Field, Attribute]
3) Row = [Tuple, Attribute]
4) Columns = [Field, Record]
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2) 3 and 4
3) Only 1
4) Only 2
Q.44. Which one of the following attribute can be
taken as a primary key? Arora Educator
1) Name
2) Street
3) Id
4) Department
5) All of these
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Q.45. Consider attributes ID , CITY and NAME . Which
one of this can be considered as a super key?
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1) NAME
2) ID
3) CITY
4) CITY , ID
5) All of these
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Q.46. This identifies rows in a table? Arora Educator
1) Candidate key
2) Sub key
3) Super key
4) Foreign key
5) All of these
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Q.47. A attribute in a relation is a foreign key if the
_______ key from one relation is used as an attribute in
that relation . ? Arora Educator
1) Candidate
2) Primary
3) Super
4) Sub
5) All of these
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Q.48. Which one of the following cannot be taken as a
primary key. ? Arora Educator
1) Id
2) Register number
3) Dept_id
4) Street
5) None of these
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Q.49. It is the columns of a table that points to the
candidate key of another table. ? Arora Educator
1) Primary Key
2) Super key
3) Candidate Key
4) Foreign key
5) All of these
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Q.50. Which of the following describes the primary key
_____. ? Arora Educator
1) It must be unique
2) It helps in indexing of a large database
3) It makes sorting quicker
4) All of these
5) None of these
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Q.51. Which of the following is NOT a good primary key
_____? Arora Educator
1) Social security number
2) Order number
3) Zip code
4) Student ID number
5) All of these
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Q.52. How many primary keys can a table have _____?
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1) One
2) At least one, but not more than two
3) Between 1 and 5
4) No limit
5) None of these
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Q.53. The columns of a table correspond to?
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1) Table
2) Record
3) Field
4) Cell
5) All of these
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Q.54. The foreign key is found in? Arora Educator
1) Parent table
2) Dependent table
3) Pivot table
4) Index table
5) All of these
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Q.55. A two-dimensional table of data Arora Educator
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1) Group Arora Educator
2) Set
3) Declaration
4) Relation
5) All of these
