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Entity Integrity - definitions

Entity Integrity - The assurance that a primary key value will identify no more than one occurrence of an entity type, and that no attribute of the primary key may contain a null value. Based on this premise, the real-world entities are uniquely distinguishable from all other entities. 

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Source: Larry English, http://www.iaidq.com/main/glossary.shtml External, 24-Jan-2009 10:56


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Entity Integrity - A property of a table that is entirely consistent with the real world object data that it represents. See also: Entity.

Source: Northwest Database Services, 09 November 2009 08:23:25, http://www.nwdatabase.com/database-glossary-e.htm External


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