Explain what each of the following are: Natural Keys Composite Primary Keys Surrogate Primary Keys

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Explain what each of the following are:
Natural Keys
Composite Primary Keys
Surrogate Primary Keys
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Natural Key:

A Natural key is a type of unique key in a database formed by the attribute that exists in the database and is used externally, outside the database. In a relational database, a natural key is a candidate key, so a functional determinant for all attributes in a relation. it is also called Domain Key sometime.

 

Composite Primary Keys:

The composite primary key is a key where more than one column is used to specify the primary key of a table. In all these cases, all foreign keys will need to include all the columns of the composite keys.

 

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