[Year 12 IT Apps] Another Questions: VITTA Practice Exam 2 Question 56

[Charmaine Taylor]

I agree with you Joyce.
A primary key is a unique identifier or unique field, usually in a database.

Charmaine Taylor
Sunbury Downs College

jtabone at aitkencollege.edu.au wrote:

>Sorry guys for doing this piecemeal, but can I please have your
>opinion to the following 
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>The Answer to Question 5 VITTA Exam 2 suggests that a primary key is
>a data type
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>My understanding of a primary key is that it is a key that is
>designated to a field therfore ensuring that the field holds a unique
>value for each record - within this field however a data type would be
>text,number, date etc
>
>Thanks for your help
>
>Cheers
>Joyce Tabone
>Aitken College
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