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Can a surrogate key be a foreign key?

From: John <jbradshaw777_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 5 Aug 2004 10:16:25 -0700
Message-ID: <f2f59d82.0408050916.27ccdefd@posting.google.com> 





Hi all,



Is there a clear definition of what a surrogate key is? Does a
surrogate key imply a candidate key? Would it make sense to say that a
particular foreign key of a table is a surrogate key?



John
Received on Thu Aug 05 2004 - 12:16:25 CDT












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