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surrogate keys

surrogate keys is the plural of surrogate key.

Meaning of surrogate key

Noun

surrogate key (plural surrogate keys)

  1. A unique identifier for an entity or object, not derived from application data.
    • We weren't sure which columns in the table would have unique values, so we used a separate surrogate key as the primary key.

Questions about surrogate keys

What is surrogate keys the plural of?
Surrogate keys is the plural of surrogate key.

Words near surrogate keys in the dictionary

  1. surrogate court
  2. surrogate courts
  3. surrogate father
  4. surrogate fathers
  5. surrogate key
  6. surrogate keys
  7. surrogate mother
  8. surrogate mothers
  9. surrogate pair
  10. surrogate pairs
  11. surrogate parent

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