Foreign key - a field or group of fields in a table that uniquely identifies a row in another table
I.e. a foreign key is defined in a table that refers to the primary key of the other table — The table that contains the foreign key is called the referencing table or child table. And the table to which the foreign key references is called referenced table or parent table
A table can have multiple foreign keys depending on its relationships with other tables
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