INTELLIGENT KEY

Domain	Definition
Computing	Intelligent key A relational database key which depends wholely on one or more other keys in the same table. An intelligent key might be identified for implementation convenience, where there is no good candidate key. For example, if the three-letter initials of a group of people are known to be unique but only their full names are recorded, a three letter acronym for their names (e.g. John Doe Smith -> JDS) would be an intelligent key. Intelligent keys are a Bad Thing because it is hard to guarantee uniqueness, and if the value an intelligent key depends on changes then the key must either stay the same, creating an inconsistency within the containing table, or change, requiring changes to all other tables in which it appears as a foreign key. The correct solution is to use a surrogate key. (1999-12-07). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
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Anagrams: INTELLIGENT KEY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-i-i-k-l-l-n-n-t-t-y"
	-3 letters: intelligent.
	-4 letters: eyeletting.
	-5 letters: entitling, genteelly, gentility, inletting, kittening, leniently, telneting.
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