What is alternate key candidate key?

What is alternate key in SQL with example?

Alternate key is a secondary key it can be simple to understand by an example: Let's take an example of student it can contain NAME, ROLL NO., ID and CLASS. Here ROLL NO. is primary key and rest of all columns like NAME, ID and CLASS are alternate keys.

What is candidate key key?

A candidate key is a specific type of field in a relational database that can identify each unique record independently of any other data. Experts describe a candidate key of having "no redundant attributes" and being a "minimal representation of a tuple" in a relational database table.

Is candidate key Same as key?

Primary Key is a unique and non-null key which identify a record uniquely in table. A table can have only one primary key. Candidate key is also a unique key to identify a record uniquely in a table but a table can have multiple candidate keys. Primary key column value can not be null.