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) identifier
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. In this case, the "Employee Number" column is acting as the primary key as it assigns a unique number to each employee and allows them to be identified individually.

Albert Creates a Relational Database to Store Employee Performance Statistics