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Candidate key - RDBMS - SQL
794    Arnab De    21/11/2021

All the minimal super key with no redundant attributes is known as candidate key.

Lets consider, a relation called Emp

Emp
Emp_SSN Emp_No Emp_Name
1234544434 E-001 Pradipta Pal
5345232444 E-002 Abhijit Ganguly
4645673422 E-003 Suman Banerjee
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In the above relation only two set of attribute can declarred as candidate key out of the six super keys, because other four keys have redundant attributes that are not necessary for unique identification

  • {Emp_SSN}
  • {Emp_Number}

Therefore, these two sets of attributes are candidate keys among the all other sets.

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Note
All the candidate keys are super keys, but not vice versa. Because candidate keys are the sub set of super keys.

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