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In database design, a primary key is a value that can be used to look up a particular row in a table. Examples are names in a telephone book (to look up telephone numbers), words in a dictionary (to look up definitions), and Dewey Decimal Numbers (to look up books in a library).

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Jordanes

... century historian. He was an Ostrogoth and was a notary of Gothic kings in Italy. At the time of Justinian, he was a Christian and possibly bishop of Croton. In ...