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1. Introduction

This section builds upon the "Introduction to Databases" miniweb, and you will need to have completed it before this one will make much sense. If you haven't read that section yet, you can find it here.

 

Keys are a way of sorting and filtering data within a database. In this section, we will discuss how keys are used, and their variations. This will include:

  • Primary keys
  • Compound keys
  • Secondary keys
  • Foreign keys

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