Albert creates a relational database to store employee performance statistics. He stores each employee's data in independent rows and creates a column named "Employee Number" to assign unique numbers to each employee. This column is referred to as a(n) ________.
A) primary key
B) key attribute
C) foreign key
D) functionally dependent record

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A primary key is a column or set of columns in a relational database table that uniquely identifies each row in the table, and in this case, "Employee Number" is used to assign unique numbers to each employee, making it the primary key. choice B) key attribute, and choice D) functionally dependent record are not appropriate in this context, while choice C) foreign key is not mentioned in the given information.

Albert Creates a Relational Database to Store Employee Performance Statistics