SQL Strategies and Tactics
August 03, 2010
Data Integrity With Foreign Keys
By Michael Marr


In relational database design, we rely on keys in one table to relate to the primary keys of another.

The InnoDB engine takes this concept and supplies the Foreign Key constraint to keep our relationships healthy and strong.

It's truly a relationship miracle-worker. Eat your heart out, Dr. Phil.

We might have some tables that look something like this:

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