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A foreign key references is where one field "links" to another table. The database will maintain referential integrity - this means that there must be a corresponding record in the other table - in this example each track must be on an album that exists in the album table. The field (or fields) linked to must be unique - usually the other field is the primary key of the other table. In this example we store details of tracks on albums - we need to use three columns to get a unique key - each album may have more than one disk - each disk will have tracks numbered 1, 2, 3... | ||
| Specific to Ingres | ||
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