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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) :   [ foldoc ]

  candidate key
       
           One of several possible attributes or combinations
          of attributes which can be used to uniquely identify a body of
          information (a "{record").
       
          (1997-04-26)
       
       

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  candidate key
     n.
     (lb en computing databases) In the design of a database table, a
  column (or an irreducible group of them) able to identify every row of
  the table. One of the candidate keys (abbreviated CKs) will be the
  primary key.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  candidate key
     n.
     (lb en computing databases) In the design of a database table, a
  column (or an irreducible group of them) able to identify every row of
  the table. One of the candidate keys (abbreviated CKs) will be the
  primary key.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  candidate key
     n.
     (lb en computing databases) In the design of a database table, a
  column (or an irreducible group of them) able to identify every row of
  the table. One of the candidate keys (abbreviated CKs) will be the
  primary key.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  candidate key
     n.
     (lb en computing databases) In the design of a database table, a
  column (or an irreducible group of them) able to identify every row of
  the table. One of the candidate keys (abbreviated CKs) will be the
  primary key.

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  candidate key /kˈandɪdˌeɪt kˈiː/
  bestimmender Schlüssel, bestimmender Kennbegriff
   see: sorting key, key, primary key, secondary key, alternate key
  

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