{"id":15762,"date":"2024-03-15T11:42:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T11:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-access-be-configured-with-two-primary-keys\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T21:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T21:20:41","slug":"how-can-access-be-configured-with-two-primary-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-access-be-configured-with-two-primary-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"How can access be configured with two primary keys?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a relational database, each table can only have one primary key, which is used to uniquely identify each row of data in the table. If multiple unique identifiers are needed, consider using a composite primary key, which is made up of multiple fields and can uniquely identify a row of data.<\/p>\n<p>To set a composite key, you can either use multiple fields as the primary key when creating the table, or modify the table structure to add a composite key.<\/p>\n<p>Example 1: Setting composite primary keys when creating a table.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">CREATE<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">TABLE<\/span> your_table (\r\n  id <span class=\"hljs-type\">INT<\/span>,\r\n  name <span class=\"hljs-type\">VARCHAR<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-number\">255<\/span>),\r\n  <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">PRIMARY<\/span> KEY (id, name)\r\n);\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Example 2: Adding a composite primary key by modifying the table structure.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">ALTER<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">TABLE<\/span> your_table\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">ADD<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">PRIMARY<\/span> KEY (id, name);\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the example above, we created a table named your_table with two fields, id and name. 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