A determinant that determines all the other columns in a relation is a ________.
A)record
B)surrogate key
C)foreign key
D)candidate key

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A candidate key is a column, or a set of columns, in a table that can uniquely identify any database record without referring to any other data. Each table may have one or more candidate keys, but one of these candidate keys is selected as the table primary key.

A Determinant That Determines All the Other Columns in a Relation