Foreign Key - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

Database Introduction

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.05
17.00
Published
June 2020
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-01-23
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Product Category
Teradata Vantageā„¢

A Foreign Key (FK) identifies table relationships. They model the relationship between data values across tables. Relational databases, like Teradata Database, permit data values to associate across more than one table.

Thus each FK a table may have must exist somewhere as a PK. That is, there must be referential integrity between FKs and PKs.