foreign key

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noun Technical meaning of foreign key (database) A column in a database table containing values that are also found in some primary key column (of a different table). By extension, any reference to entities of a different type. Some RDBMSs allow a column to be explicitly labelled as a foreign key and only allow values to be inserted if they already exist in the relevant primary key column. 1
noun foreign key (computing, databases) A column (or group of columns) in a relational table that identifies another table, so that items in the two tables can be conceptually linked. 0

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