Used in ER diagrams; if you think of the contents of an entity as a series of rows in a table, the primary key is the field containing the unique identifier for each row For example, in the entity Invoice there is a row of data for each invoice, and the field Invoice Number could serve as the primary key, which uniquely identifies a given invoice
The Key chosen by the database designer to be VA FileMan's principal means of identifying records in the file VA FileMan automatically displays the Primary Key during classic interactive lookup (^DIC) and uses the Primary Key to identify records brought in during a KIDS installation Exactly one Key in a file or subfile must be designated the Primary Key See Key
A column, or combination of columns, within a table whose values together form the "principal unique identifier" of rows in that table In other words, a table's primary key serves to uniquely identify row in that table
One or more columns whose values uniquely identify every row in a table Normally an index always exists on the primary key
- The key field in the Address Book that is used by FootPrints as a reference to identify the customer contact
The information in a database column or columns that constitutes a unique entry for each row in the database table
An attribute in an entity that uniquely identifies rows of that entity For example, the Employee entity can contain an empID attribute that uniquely identifies each employee
An attribute selected to act as the unique identifier for each occurrence of an entity or relationship A primary key must be unique, stable, minimal and non-null under all conditions
An attribute or group of attributes that uniquely identifies a tuple within a table Example: A customer table might have as its primary key the customer number
A column in a table whose value uniquely identifies its row in the table It cannot be a NULL value