Navdeep creates a table RESULT with a set of records to maintain the marks secured by students in Sem 1, Sem2, Sem3 and their division. After creation of the table, he has entered data of 7 students in the table.
ROLL_NO | SNAME | SEM1 | SEM2 | SEM3 | DIVISION |
101 | KARAN | 366 | 410 | 402 | I |
102 | NAMAN | 300 | 350 | 325 | I |
103 | ISHA | 400 | 410 | 415 | I |
104 | RENU | 350 | 357 | 415 | I |
105 | ARPIT | 100 | 75 | 178 | IV |
106 | SABINA | 100 | 205 | 217 | II |
107 | NEELAM | 470 | 450 | 471 | I |
Based on the data given above answer the following questions:
(i) Identify the most appropriate column, which can be considered as Primary key.
Answer:
A primary key is an attribute which can uniquely identify the records in a relation/table.
In the given table, the column ROLL_NO can uniquely identify each record.
Therefore, ROLL_NO is the most appropriate column to be considered as the primary key.