title: Are Determinants and Candidate Keys same or different things?
body: <p><a href="http://databases.about.com/cs/specificproducts/g/determinant.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Here</a> I found this:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p><strong>Definition:</strong> A determinant in a database table is any attribute that you can use to determine the values assigned to other
  attribute(s) in the same row.</p>
  <p><strong>Examples:</strong> Consider a table with the attributes employee_id, first_name, last_name and date_of_birth. In this case, the field
  employee_id determines the remaining three fields. The name fields do
  not determine the employee_id because the firm may have more than one
  employee with the same first and/or last name. Similarly, the DOB
  field does not determine the employee_id or the name fields because
  more than one employee may share the same birthday.</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>Isn't the definition applicable for candidate keys too?</p>