candidate key (English, noun)
expansion: candidate key (plural candidate keys)
Senses:
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In the design of a database table, a column (or an irreducible group of them) able to identify every row of the table, having a unique value or set of values in each row. One of the candidate keys (abbreviated CKs) will be the primary key.
Forms:
form: candidate keys
tags: plural