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What is meant by Key attributes of an Entity type?

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Every entity has one of its attributes, which contains unique values for identifying the entity instances is called identifier or key attributes of an entity type. 

For example, “RollNo” as attribute of Entity type ‘Student’ has unique values through which a student instance can be identified. Similarly, code is a key attribute of entity type ‘Accounts’ because its data values are required to be unique.

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