Can a database table contains more than one primary key?

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The primary key of a relational table uniquely identifies each record in the table. So, in order to keep the uniqueness of each record, you cant have more than one primary key for the table. It can either be a normal attribute that is guaranteed to be unique (such as Social Security Number in a table with no more than one record per person) or it can be generated by the DBMS (such as a globally unique identifier, or GUID, in Microsoft SQL Server). Primary keys may consist of a single attribute or multiple attributes in combination.

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