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surrogate key

noun

Definitions

  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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for surrogate key. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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