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0 pointsmulmen5y ago0 comments

Thanks that makes sense.

Is this an industry term or are you just using it here to emphasize the difference?

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marcos1005y ago· 1 in thread

Industry term. But it is usually unknown to people who tend to use id as primary key for every table.

mulmenOP5y ago

Do you mean synthetic keys rather than natural keys?

dspillett5y ago

I've seen alternate used in other places to refer to candidate keys that are not currently the primary key, though I'm fairly sure it isn't a defined standard term.

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