Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

surrogate key

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English

Syllables: sur-ro-gate key
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A unique identifier for an entity or object, not derived from application data.

Example Sentences

"We weren't sure which columns in the table would have unique values, so we used a separate surrogate key as the primary key."

Inflected Forms

surrogate keys (plural)

Questions

What does surrogate key mean?: A unique identifier for an entity or object, not derived from application data.

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