foreign key

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Noun

foreign key (plural foreign keys)

1. (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.

Related terms

• referential integrity
• primary key

Translations

column referencing another table

Chinese: Mandarin: 外鍵 / 外键 (wàijiàn) Czech: cizí klíč m Finnish: viiteavain French: clé étrangère (fr) f German: Fremdschlüssel m Japanese: 外部キー (gaibu kī) Persian: شناسال Portuguese: chave estrangeira f Romanian: cheie străină f Russian: вне́шний ключ m (vnéšnij ključ) Swedish: främmande nyckel c Turkish: yabancı anahtar