foreign key
Noun

foreign key (plural foreign keys)

  1. (database) 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 Translations
  • French: clé étrangère
  • German: Fremdschlüssel
  • Portuguese: chave estrangeira
  • Russian: вне́шний ключ



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