topic Terminology question: Is Composite Key the same as Concatenated Key? in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Terminology-question-Is-Composite-Key-the-same-as-Concatenated/m-p/910069#M652737 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi all,</P><P></P><P>I have seen some blogs mention using a composite key to handle synthetic tables. Is this the same as creating a concatenated key?</P><P></P><P>I get confused by the terminology so just want to check what composite key means exactly.</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:42:13 GMT jblomqvist 2015-07-22T13:42:13Z Terminology question: Is Composite Key the same as Concatenated Key? https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Terminology-question-Is-Composite-Key-the-same-as-Concatenated/m-p/910069#M652737 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi all,</P><P></P><P>I have seen some blogs mention using a composite key to handle synthetic tables. Is this the same as creating a concatenated key?</P><P></P><P>I get confused by the terminology so just want to check what composite key means exactly.</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:42:13 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Terminology-question-Is-Composite-Key-the-same-as-Concatenated/m-p/910069#M652737 jblomqvist 2015-07-22T13:42:13Z Re: Terminology question: Is Composite Key the same as Concatenated Key? https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Terminology-question-Is-Composite-Key-the-same-as-Concatenated/m-p/910070#M652738 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yes it is, it <SPAN style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">is a combination of two or more columns in a table that can be used to uniquely identify each row in the table. Uniqueness is only guaranteed when the columns are combined; when taken individually the columns do not guarantee uniqueness</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:04:33 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Terminology-question-Is-Composite-Key-the-same-as-Concatenated/m-p/910070#M652738 stigchel 2015-07-22T14:04:33Z