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Sure, not an issue but it will mean you can get multiple hits for the same query. You have to take that into account in your program.

Guidance is to have a unique key for every table but that is not a requirement.

Think of an example where you are using a database to collect poll answers. All you have is the answers from all people, no unique information from the persons because that is not important to your survey.

Or, say you keep information in that same table of location of the city where the survey was taken it. There is a possibility that more than one row will have the same data.

You can get meaningful information from the database.

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