Surrogate Key

Surrogate Key - A single-part, artificially established identifier for an entity. A common way of deriving surrogate key values is to assign integer values sequentially.

[Category=Data Governance ]

Source: The Data Governance Institute, 27 December 2009 11:00:42, http://www.datagovernance.com/glossary-governance/

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Surrogate Key - A surrogate key is a single-part, artificially established identifier for an entity. Surrogate key assignment is a special case of derived data - one where the primary key is derived. A common way of deriving surrogate key values is to assign integer values sequentially.

[Category=Information Management ]

Source: Information-Management.com, 12 July 2010 09:30:26, http://www.information-management.com/glossary/m.html

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Surrogate Key - A surrogate key is a single-part, artificially established identifier for an entity. Surrogate key assignment is a special case of derived data - one where the primary key is derived. A common way of deriving surrogate key values is to assign integer values sequentially.

[Category=Data Management ]

Source: DataMentors, 27 August 2010 09:21:10, http://www.datamentors.com/News-and-Resources/Glossary.html