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What difference between Super and Candidate key in ERDB?

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A superkey is a set of columns that uniquely identifies a row. A Candidate key would be a MINIMAL set of columns that uniquely identifies a row. So essentially a Superkey is a Candidate key with extra unnecessary columns in it.


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