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Describe primary and foreign keys. How do they differ? When and how they are needed?
 
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Telecommuting is facilitated by all of the following except:
 
  A) privacy laws.
  B) low costs for personal computing products.
  C) Internet connectivity.
  D) software to facilitate remote collaboration.



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Answer to Question 1

A primary key is an attribute or a set of attributes whose values uniquely identify a row. The relationship between entities in different tables is established through foreign keys. The foreign key is an attribute in one table, the value of which must match the value of a primary or an alternate key in another table. Unlike primary keys, foreign keys are not required and do not, necessarily, identify a row uniquely. Like primary keys, a foreign key can be composite, consisting of more than one attribute.

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Reply 2 on: Jul 7, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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