foreign key

English

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, 外键 (wàijiàn)

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